Episode 160 - Adrian Barnes

Everything Band Podcast

Adrian Barnes is a music education professor at Rowan University. He joins the show for a discussion about his career and culturally responsive teaching.

Topics:

• How hip hop and growing up playing music in the church were foundational experiences to Adrian’s musical career and how an important teacher helped him put it all together.
• Adrian’s experiences at Bethune-Cookman and Florida State University before his first job in Manatee County, Florida.
• Going back to earn his doctorate at Texas Tech University with a Promise Neighborhood Grant.
• Culturally responsive teaching and and advice for teachers to help reach students from a variety of different backgrounds.

Links:

• Adrian Barnes
• Bethune-Cookman University Music
• Florida State University
• Promise Neighborhood Grants
• Dvořák: Symphony No 9 in E minor "From The New World"

Biography:

Adrian D. Barnes began his teaching career in a Title I school in Bradenton, Florida (grades 6-8) as a band and orchestra director. While in Florida, he served as an assistant director of marching band at Southeast High School working specifically with drum-line, and front ensemble. Dr. Barnes has worked closely with students from historically marginalized communities, as well as students with special needs.

Upon attending Texas Tech University, Dr. Barnes served as an instructor of record, an instructor for the Texas Tech University String Project, and as a research assistant on a grant given to Texas Tech University by the U.S. Department of education for the purposes of establishing better relationships, and providing social capital to African American/Blacks and Latinos of Mexican-origin within a historically disenfranchised section of Lubbock, Texas. In addition, Dr. Barnes has an interest in studying the arts internationally and has traveled to universities within Southwest China as a part of a cultural exchange of American Music Education in Chengdu China to present on hip-hop rhythms through body percussion.

Dr. Barnes research interests include using hip-hop in the music classroom, music and informal learning, aesthetics in music education, and the recruitment of historically marginalized populations by collegiate music ensemble directors.

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