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RHETORICAL CONTEXTS PROFESSIONAL

In the speech above, the author is a music professor who was formerly a high school band director.

What is the occasion, or external motivation, for writing?.

What is the author writing about? What is his or her topic?.

What is the author trying to accomplish? What is his or her purpose?.

Who is the author, speaker, or composer?.

To understand the rhetorical context of the speech, you must ask yourself the following questions: I respectfully urge the board to vote yes on Initiative 952 and fund the education of tomorrow’s musicians. Initiative 952, with its emphasis on digital recording and production, would entice students back to music class and set them on a lifelong love of musicianship. As a consequence, high school students are abandoning school music classes.

RHETORICAL CONTEXTS PROFESSIONAL

As a former high school band conductor and current music professor at a state university, I train professional musicians and study music education curriculum, and I believe that current music classes are not providing what most students desire and what most future professionals need. Additionally, teens are taking to the internet themselves, recording their own work and sending it out to the world, with approximately 12,000 covers of songs being uploaded every 24 hours. However, today’s average teenager listens to music for four hours a day, most of which is created digitally and produced through computer software, drum kits, and keyboards. In its current form, high school music education focuses almost exclusively on large instrumental and vocal ensembles grounded in classical music and conducted by one individual, typically the school’s music teacher.

It is high time for music education to enter the digital age.