The Transformative Effects of Education: How my experience at the Berklee Global Jazz Institute has affected me as musician and educator, and inspired me to become more socially active

Authors

Alexander Johnson

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Abstract

The title of my Culminating Experience Project is "The Transformative Effects of Education". This project is a reflection on how my educational experience at the Berklee Global Jazz Institute has affected me as a musician and educator, and how this experience has motivated me to become more socially active. The compositions that I wrote and recorded were all directly influenced from different lessons I've learned throughout the year at the BGJI, both musical and personal. This paradigm shift for me is a direct result of my education here, and the time I spent in the Music and Social Activism class. That class really got me thinking about what difference I could make in my community back home in Los Angeles, and this propelled me into the other component of my project. I had the idea to create my own non- profit organization, which I'm naming "The Norwalk Jazz All Stars". The mission of my organization is to expose middle school band students in the Norwalk/La Mirada school districts to jazz through free private lessons with professional musicians, playing in a jazz ensemble, and having performance opportunities in the community and area.

Publication Date

7-1-2019

Campus

Boston Campus

Comments

Project Components: paper (.pdf), presentation (.pdf), audio files (ZIP file containing 4 .wav files), scores (ZIP file containing 3 .pdf documents).

Recommended Citation

Johnson, Alexander, "The Transformative Effects of Education: How my experience at the Berklee Global Jazz Institute has affected me as musician and educator, and inspired me to become more socially active" (2019). Global Jazz. 62.
https://remix.berklee.edu/graduate-studies-global-jazz/62