WORD BEAT
"WANA NARAKA GA BUNDURR - THE LAND IS OUR BACKBONE
It is our song-cycles that have the greatest importance in the lives of my people, and which guide and inform our lives.
A song-cycle tells a person’s life: it relates to the past, to the present and to the future."
Dr Yunupingu AM-
Video Title 1
-
Video Title 4
Designed to encourage young people to draw creativity from personal experiences, Word Beat helps them to interpret ideas into rhyming poems and eventually write a song that accompanies a beat. Participants are provided with a basic understanding of music theory through passionate and practical exercises.
Word Beat assists indigenous youth to utilise and improve their English language skills, and broaden their use of vocabulary as an integral part of the writing process. With the short-term goal of performing the recordings locally, for RIBS, efforts can lead to opportunities for some to participate in competitions and to work with professional musicians presenting their original material.
The program is successful in the affective domain, improving self confidence, confirming identity, creating trust and improving personal organisation. Using music education as a way of engaging participation for disaffected youth. The content of the songs can be pre determined, to promote positive outcomes for community and cultural issues around wellbeing, cultural concerns, suicide prevention, or be driven by the interests of the participants depending on the needs of the funding body or community.
The program is successful in the affective domain, improving self confidence, confirming identity, creating trust and improving personal organisation. Using music education as a way of engaging participation for disaffected youth. The content of the songs can be pre determined, to promote positive outcomes for community and cultural issues around wellbeing, cultural concerns, suicide prevention, or be driven by the interests of the participants depending on the needs of the funding body or community.
A Word Beat program may be taylored and designed to ensure an applied learning approach to basic skills is include, providing opportunities for improving learning to learn skills, literacy in English or local language and numeracy concepts.
Through song, words and our culture, the program is a fabulous method of engaging young people from school leavers and upwards and encouraging them to participate in regular activities. Being able to offer a preview into engaging in successful activity, with a real potential pathway to qualifications in multimedia or music.
Through song, words and our culture, the program is a fabulous method of engaging young people from school leavers and upwards and encouraging them to participate in regular activities. Being able to offer a preview into engaging in successful activity, with a real potential pathway to qualifications in multimedia or music.