The fourteen selectionsĪre cross generational, meant to bring young and old together with rhythmical sounds Of jazz with soulful lyrics that paint a story of past and present. It exposes listeners to a music tapestry that binds the traditional elements World exploring culture and creative expression. Of Terence Elliott as a musician, composer and educator. His latest CD, Jazz Nothin’ But Soul, 2013 is a cross genre musical project that expresses the multi-faceted life and times Elliott is an accomplished pianist, composer and producer. My teaching philosophy and motto in life is to engage and uplift others and myselfĭr. I am a published author of the book, Spirit, Rhythm, and Story: Community Building and Healing through Song, 2019 and my new textbook and ebook, Hip Hop Music: History and Culture, 2022. Program (AAMLP) and in the summer of 2019, I led several of my students to Ghana, I am the founder and co-director of the DVC’s African American Male Leadership Hop Music and Culture, the History of Rock and R&B, and Intro to Social Justice through In the fall of 2014, I rejoined the teaching ranks as a full-time musicįaculty member at Diablo Valley College (DVC) currently teaching: the History of Hip Of the Academic Senate, and Chair of the African American Studies department, at ContraĬosta College. Former Dean of the Natural, Applied and Social Science division, President Leadership from Argosy University and hold a Masters’ degree in Creative Arts andĪ Bachelors’ degree in Music and Black Studies that was earned at San Francisco State Terence Elliott, who some refer to as “Doc,” I have been working as an educator for forty years. Terence Elliot | piano, music literature, I am Dr. Music 256 Pedagogy for Studio Music Teachers Music 150 and 151 Beginning Piano I and II Part of the ongoing lineage of the great Austro-German Romantic tradition representedīy Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, and Wagner. Study of epic metal bands and music cultures in Bavaria.
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Musicians, and community members in its exploration of the significance of these songs In Arizona includes extensive work with the perspectives of ceremonial practitioners, His ongoing fieldwork on the Navajo Reservation Cook’s dissertation in progress explores the healing power of the Native AmericanĬhurch on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. Music Research Center Journal, and Kolner Studien Zur Musik in Erziehung und Therapie:ĭr. Numerous articles in the International Journal of Humanities and Peace, the American The honor of Best Teacher in Arizona (‘89), he is also a recipient of four FellowshipsĪnd the George and Dorothy Zolk Fellowship at UC Davis. His ethnographic fieldwork exploring musicĬultures has been conducted in Morocco, Egypt and the American Southwest. Cook is a practicing ethnomusicologist (UC Davis (Mahler) and Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (Barber) garnered the year’s Best of BoulderĪn avid explorer of soundscapes, Dr. Transcriptions with voice of the Four Last Songs of Richard Strauss, Kindertotenlieder Recitals have included the late piano sonatas of Beethoven and Schubert,Ĭhopin’s Barcarolle, and Samuel Barber’s Excursions. ‘85) and the University of Colorado, Boulder Cook’s devotion to the piano is evidentįrom the numerous degrees received at Greensboro College (B.M. Studied with renowned pianist Edward Kilenyi, a pupil of Erno Dohnanyi and contemporary Cook began playing the piano at an early age, and