Description
How do you incorporate Arabic popular music into the classroom? This comprehensive guide provides research, strategies, and practical steps for singing, dancing, and playing popular Arabic music with your students. Created by Mia Ibrahim with contributions from Ashley Shabankareh and F-flat community members, this resource is being released to honor the life and work of Mia.
Proceeds from this resource will go towards the Mia Ibrahim Scholarship Fund, providing tangible opportunities for music educators to experience and learn how to incorporate popular music in their classroom through professional development opportunities.
This resource includes:
- Research on Arabic popular music in the classroom
- Suggestions for exploring Arab cultures with students
- Ideas for incorporating Arabic and Arabizi in the classroom
- Descriptions of popular Arabic songs with accompanying lead sheets and drumming guides
- Guides for dancing and playing with Arabic popular music
- Resource lists
- An editable Google Slideshow to use in teaching and learning
About the Authors
Mia Ibrahim (they/them) was a queer, Middle Eastern high school music educator and department head in the south Bronx of New York and a PhD Student at the University of Kentucky. They served on the Board of Directors for the Association for Popular Music Education and as chair of the development committee. Mia graduated with their Master’s in Music Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and had a long history of working with marginalized communities, starting with a music therapy apprenticeship at rehabilitation centers and brain injury centers in the Bay Area of California…learn more here–>
Ashley Shabankareh (she/they) is a New Orleans musician, music educator, and arts administrator. Ashley received her M.M. and B.M.E. from Loyola University, New Orleans, with a concentration on conducting and brass instruments. Ashley is a certified K-12 music educator and spent her early years in New Orleans teaching PK4 through 8th grade students. They transitioned from full-time music instruction to assist in the creation of the curriculum and program guidelines for the Tulane University Music Rising Program..learn more here–>
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