Teachers' Forum with Rebecca Pan and Chan Ho Fung
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At our forum held at the Hong Kong Institute of Education on 14 June 2008, Ms. Rebecca Pan 潘迪華 and Mr. Chan Ho Fung 陳浩峰 shared their views on pop music creation, production and performance with a lively group of Hong Kong school teachers. ‘Pop music is not only for leisure, it is also for learning about life and cultural appreciation’, said Ms. Pan. Her own multilingual music performances around the world were also a topic for discussion. ‘I was performing to a world audience, and it was not an easy thing in the 60s when racial discrimination was a fact of life. I was travelling to various corners of the world, singing in English, Mandarin and Japanese. At the same time, I was also learning about different cultures.’ Ms. Pan also shared the joys and challenges of staging the first Broadway-style Mandarin musical, The White Maiden 白孃孃 in Hong Kong in 1972.
On a different note, Mr. Chan explained how the changing nature of the local pop music industry made it challenging to sustain a creative career in pop music. Commenting on the process of lyric writing, Mr. Chan suggested that the karaoke culture might have contributed to the current trend of increasing the number of words in songs.
The two guest speakers closed the forum with a lively discussion on the role of pop music in education. Dr. Leung, our HKIEd facilitator, commented that the inclusion of pop music in the music curriculum was a relatively recent initiative and teachers still have a lot to do to prepare for the curriculum changes. Other teachers voiced their opinion that music education has been distorted towards the commodification of examination certificates rather than the appreciation of music as an art form.
潘迪華、陳浩峰訪教院兩代歌手傳授融「樂」入「教」妙法
News report from Sing Tao Daily
《星島日報》
2008-06-10
袁效仁
袁效仁閒時最喜歡聽歌輕鬆一下，只要細心咀嚼當中的歌詞和旋律，不難發現不同年代的流行曲背後，其實都反映着那個年頭的歷史和文化。難怪現時不少老師都喜歡以流行曲作為教材，香港教育學院更邀得潘迪華和陳浩峰兩個劃時代的歌手，於本周六舉行一場教師論壇，分享自己的音樂旅程。今次教院舉辦這個「香港流行音樂文化與教育教師論壇」，聽聞是英文學系教授 Phil Benson的主意， Phil在一年前開始研究如何在教學中加入音樂元素。他之所以邀請潘迪華和陳浩峰出席論壇，正與兩人截然不同的音樂風格和背景有關。
潘迪華歌影創經典
眾所周知，被喻為「香港夜鶯」的潘姐姐，出道至今差不多半個世紀，不但是香港首位爵士樂歌手，七二年更自資演出香港首個音樂劇《白孃孃》，劇中《愛你變成害你》一曲至今仍繚繞樂壇。其後她參演著名導演王家衛執導的《阿飛正傳》、《花樣年華》等多齣燴炙人口的電影，絕對是屬於上一個年代歌手的典範。
事實上，潘姐姐亦非首次與大學合作，近年她曾先後在中文大學和香港大學上通識課，教院今次正是看準這一點，特別邀請她出席講座，希望她與老師分享如何將文化元素融入音樂之中。 而陳浩峰則屬實力派歌手，是「假音人」樂隊的主音。陳浩峰於二千年創立「假音人」，亦經常為楊千嬅、何韻詩、 at17等歌手填詞。早前他偕公民黨新進黨員陳淑莊演出的舞台劇《東宮西宮》，更親自作曲、填詞諷刺時弊，惹來不少迴響。
教師勿盲從學生口味
現時教書再不能好像過往般一味「老師講書、學生聽書」，老師要將不同元素帶入課堂課本之中，有時頗為頭疼。袁效仁覺得，大部分學生都喜歡聽歌和追捧偶像明星，如果老師們能從他們的喜好如流行曲入手，融入通識等科目之中，相信必定能事半功倍。 不過，話分兩頭，老師亦不宜單以迎合學生口味為重，畢竟學習不是搞笑，千萬不要將討學生歡心成為授業正道。
(《星島日報》大學版，學府風，F02, 袁效仁, 2008-06-10 )
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