Transmission

Summary

Dominique Pagani sees transmission as the constant in his career as a philosophy teacher, an educational publisher and a music teacher in Niger1. He describes his meeting with Michel Clouscard as an exchange: Clouscard introduced him to the French working class, and in return he brought Clouscard elements of bourgeois culture, particularly musical culture. A documentary on the Centre for Musical Training and Promotion in Niamey, of which he was probably the director, raises the question of how orally transmitted music is passed on. It covers the workshop orchestras, which bring modern and traditional musicians together, and an instrument-making workshop open to people beyond the griot's hereditary role. The documentary concludes that such music can be learned at school2. He also argues that teaching forces one to find a systematic order and a clarity one did not have before. He draws on Goethe and on his own teaching in non-French-speaking countries. In this sense, he defends Engels as a teacher whose task was "making known"3. His rule as a teacher is to defend the author he is commenting on, so as to pass on a treasure and not a single jewel4.

1. 1#1 Presentation: the EU, Clouscard, Rousseau20 Sept 2014
2. 2The clash of cultures: K. Souleymane (Niger)19 May 2018
3. 3#9 Benefits and harms of amnesia…17 Dec 2020
4. 4A balance in nature?31 Mar 2021

Introduction produced automatically from the 4 sessions on this theme, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the sessions.