THE FIGURE OF SHAMAN AS THE POTENTIAL MODEL OF LEADER IN MUSIC AND MUSICAL EDUCATION
Magda Bałajewicz
May 25, 2018 DOI: 10.17770/sie2018vol1.3294 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
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| Keywords | Education |
| Key points | Argues that the shaman, as an initiator and later leader, can serve as a valuable educational model for young artists, especially in jazz, where learning rests on an intimate student-master relationship. Contends that shamanism has become a cultural model tied to pop culture, artistic and spiritual transformation, and opposition for excluded communities, and that lifelong informal and nonformal education is essential to developing an artist's individual personality and sensitivity. |
Abstract
Shaman is an individual, gifted with plenty of unusual skills the medium between two worlds, human and the external one. Being a leader and healer, shaman is master for the younger entrants, leading them through the difficult initiation process and preparing them to independent work on their potential in the future. With time shamanism became a sort of the cultural model associated with pop-culture: a path of the artistic and spiritual transformation, a form of opposition for excluded communities, a type of common experience of art and a prototype of the figure of leader. The consciousness of the existence of this kind of artistic and psychological model and the possibility of its use in art could be the key element in young artist's music educational process, based on the intimate relation between the student and the master, especially in jazz music genre. In this context extremely important is informal and nonformal education lasting for the whole life, it allows the artist to develop their individual personality and sensitivity on every level of existence. In this perspective the figure of shaman first entrant, later leader could be a valuable and useful educational model.