Music Education Abroad Music Study Abroad in Non-European Locations
WELCOME
STUDY MUSIC ABROAD in non-European locations! Music Education Abroad strives to build appreciation and understanding between diverse musical cultures by offering American student musicians the opportunity to volunteer-teach in India for one or two semesters, while pursuing coursework in both Western and Indian music, relevant to their majors, and S. Asian culture. American student musicians, [...]
ACADEMICS
The “classical” music of the Indian subcontinent, while uniquely beautiful, shares many similarities with the “classical” music of the West. Its theories are built on ancient tradition, it has been conserved through time by an elite class of practitioners, and its mastery requires a lifetime of study and devotion. It also coexists with a powerful [...]
TEACHING
While study abroad opportunities for general college students have exploded exponentially in the past decade, Music students are still largely limited to a few standard programs in Western Europe. MEA is the first semester-long program in the developing world designed specifically for performance-, composition-, music education-, and ethnomusicology majors. Indeed, its flexible curriculum allows a [...]
STUDENT LIFE
The MEA semester in India is designed to ease students into their new surroundings with a careful balance of familiarity and challenge. Each semester’s group of approximately 20 students is housed in a central location, but students immerse themselves and navigate the culture independently through their Teaching Practicum, their applied music studies, and the many [...]
LOCATION
Chennai, formerly known as Madras, is the political capital of the state of Tamil Nadu and the artistic capital of the “Carnatic” music tradition. Its music season rivals that of the greatest musical centers of the globe, it is the center of classical Bharatanatyam dance, and is home to a flourishing regional film industry. A [...]
ADMISSION
Admission to MEA/India is competitive. Only two or three students on each instrument can be accommodated per semester. (See “Teaching” for areas in which instruction is currently offered.) Preference is generally given to students enrolled in a professional Music degree, especially in performance and music education, although other music majors (in theory, history, composition, ethnomusicology, [...]
