by NPR STAFF
December 27, 2013 6:07 PM
The online magazine Ozy covers people, places and trends on the horizon. Co-founder Carlos Watson joins All Things Considered regularly to tell us about the site's latest feature stories.
This week, Watson tells host Arun Rath about a teacher using jazz to educate young students about democracy and a site that could spruce up the playlist for New Year's Eve parties this year.
The Jazzy Side Of Government
"Dr. Wes Watkins grew up in Oakland. There was good music all around him, but he was never a musician himself. [He] made his way to Stanford and Oxford, ultimately got a Ph.D. in music education. And along the way ... he realized that the structure and the improv nature of jazz was not dissimilar from democracy and that in fact you needed both. ... He realized that there was an opportunity to teach junior high school and elementary school students who normally got bored at talk of things like democracy more about it by using principles of jazz."
Read 'America the Bebop' On Ozy.com
Read more: http://www.npr.org/2013/12/28/257672489/teaching-democracy-through-jazz-perfecting-party-playlists?ft=1&f=1049
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