To Serve The Music Itself
"We now experience simultaneously the dropout and the teach-in. The two forms are correlative. They belong together... The dropout represents a rejection of nineteenth-century technology as manifested in our educational establishments. The teach-in represents a creative effort, switching the educational process from package to discovery." Marshall McLuhan Being in my current college institution for the past four years, there are many things discovered, and being in the BA in Music, a sort of limbo between the Conservatory and the College, allows me the chance to see certain things. I did consider going fully into the Con, yes, but that shattered quickly for several reasons. When I got a voice instructor, I realized all too quickly there were disagreements in how we thought about many things, but I had neither the confidence to voice such things nor the power to have any safety doing so, being a first-term student. This is on top of my other mental health problems going on at ...