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I know that this account is dormant, but please don't post copyvios like on Ethel Hedgeman Lyle and Norma Elizabeth Boyd. I had/have to rewrite the article due to copyvios violations. Miranda 02:36, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Wynton Theory
Wynton Theory is a theoretical framework for jazz pedagogy created by instructional designer Charmaine Nokuri in 2008 after a succession of very engaging forum discussions on the Wynton Marsalis website. Significant contributors to this theory are Herb Smith, Joseph Jennings, Juan Mustard and Neil L. King. Wynton Theory is a concept that is based on the constructivist learning theory.

From a historical perspective to call Jazz, American music is simply nebulous. This because historians no longer look at American culture as a melting pot, but a salad bowl. Musical taxonomy should thus reflect the distinct culture that created it. For example, garage band music could label music that is created by musicians with little or no formal musical training. Therefore, grunge music is a type of garage band music created by Caucasian males from Seattle, Washington, while Go-Go music, is a type of garage band music created by African-American Males from the DC Metro area. Such a taxonomy will help in the instructional design of music programs.

In general Wynton Theory is based on constructivism. As defined by Wikipedia:

Constructivism is a psychological theory of knowledge (epistemology) which argues that humans construct knowledge and meaning from their experiences. [en.wikipedia.org])

The point of this theory is not so much to analyze Wynton's music perse but the musical culture that created hm. To many times musicians focus on the technique of musicians, such embouchure, tone, and dexterity, while ignoring the social science that created them. Wynton is not simply a product of great musical training, but also a product of a distinct cultural and historical period. A New Orleans culture that not only produced a great African American musical and scholarly family like the Marsalises but also the famed political strategist Donna Brazille.

Quincy Jones in a 2008 article chided Wynton for not connecting with hip hop. In my view this is totally unfair, because it assumes that because a man is black and male he has a connection with the hip hop culture. In fact, always associating black males with main stream hip hop culture is very dangerous for the psychology of black males and police officers. Black males should be able to identify with any cultural expression outside of the dominate culture without being deemed, white or "not down". Being a successful black male in America is hard enough, they do not need to be attacked by others in their own community but instead encouraged to interact with black males from other walks of life. Instead of attacking Wynton, provide him with some suggestions. Maybe the hip hop culture should reach out and support him. Jay-z and P. Diddy have plenty of money to fund such organizations like J@LCO and other jazz enterprises. However, perhaps that don't see jazz as their own music and therefore feel no responsibility to be stewards of this great AFRICAN American art form. The only art form created in America.

Wynton specifically is the focus of this theory because he is in fact a musical, historical and sociological anomaly. No one has ever asked or investigated the question: Why is there only one great black trumpet virtuoso today despite the economic and social advances garnered by intergration ? In essence how did Wynton come to be ?

To my understanding, despite his meager financial upbringing, Wynton received an impeccable classical training and some standard jazz training as well. However, he comes from a very different musical culture than jazz greats like Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk. Some may debate this musically, but in terms of jazz history, Wynton is more connected to the musical culture that created Louis Armstrong. Again jazz icons are more than a product of quality musical training. Their musical training occurs in a culturual and historical experience that few can understand and appreciate.

Experiential knowledge of jazz greats through oral history creates a richer jazz education than just simply listening to and reading about them. In fact this sort of jazz pedagogy may be the key to creating more jazz innovators. Simply put if more Miles, Birds and Dizzys are to be produced then their cultural experience must be fully experience coupled with some sort of formal musical training. Oral history suggests that these Jazz greats did not stubbornly close themselves in one musical genre and refuse to associate or appreciate lower quality forms of music. For example, Monk toured with a gospel group, while Coltrane sang Do Wop. In fact Coltrane quotes a little known Do wop song in his solo on the song "Freddie Freeloader". The quintessential jazz album "Kind of Blue" which Jimmy Carter shot into the stratosphere in a time capsule in the late 70s, is a conglomeration of mostly black musical experiences that today many jazz musicians unfortunately try to minimize and degrade as the most dominate cultural undertone in jazz. R&B, Gospel, and Do Wop, most certainly contributed to this jazz album and to jazz as a whole.

With this understanding a general paradigm shift must take place in jazz pedagogy. Students should not only be required to take just jazz musical courses but also courses in African American history and culture. This will perhaps create a richer quality of jazz musician, instead of simply a superficial technician focused only on theory, notes and musicality. Or what the famed jazz producer Orrin Evans called "jazz masturbators".

Masturbators quite logically can't birth innovation. However, these technicians are very important to the longevity and vitality of jazz music. The world would not know great jazz innovators without the millions of technicians who seek to learn how to play like them in institutions of higher learning.

The fact that jazz is formally taught along side European classical music is a great testament to the quality of this AFRICAN-American art form. Wynton has been the most instrumental musician to ensure that jazz is respected as legitimate music and thus properly archived in books and schools. Institutionalization of any art form is the highest form of worship. Innovative music becomes largely irrelevant if it is not heard and appreciated by the masses. An innovation becomes great when it has the ability to impact the main stream culture of a society and then archived in an institution so that it has an immortal legacy. Jazz innovators are increasingly becoming few and far between, because technicians now simply dominate the jazz world rather than free-thinkers that can do like Monk, Coltrane, and Miles did and connect with black musical culture and remain open to other forms of cultural expressions by other ethnicities.

The main purpose of American institutions today is to create technicians not innovators. Innovators are not individuals that are simply receptacles of written information as described by renowned educator Paulo Freire in his book "Pedagogy of the Oppressed". Innovators are able to "think outside the school box". Technicians think inside it and do not challenge the system only execute the institutions goals. If jazz is to become more relevant in American culture more innovators need to be created.

Charmaine Nokuri B.A. History minor Foriegn Affairs - THE University of Virginia M.A. Curriculum and Instruction focus Instructional Technology - Virginia Tech (Like an exiled Jew, I long for Harvard as they long for Zion, lol)

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