OSHKOSH (WLUK) — Choir students at Vel Phillips Middle School in Oshkosh got a taste of San Jose, California, music as members of Mariachi San Jose visited the school to share their sound and culture.<\/p>\n
Mariachi San Jose members workshopped with students on the music style. The goal was to give students who are Mexican or Hispanic a connection to a part of their culture that has been absent from the learning curriculum in the past.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI wanted to insert something as part of my curriculum so that they could start to be seen,\u201d said Dr. Phong Nguyen, the school\u2019s choir director.<\/p>\n
Nguyen said students quickly recognized the music from their own lives.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen started several, a couple of these songs, there were kids just raising their hands and saying we\u2019ve seen this at home, we\u2019ve seen this on our birthdays or my parents sing this all the time and it just puts a smile on their face,\u201d Nguyen said.<\/p>\n
Nguyen also said it\u2019s important to expose students to different musical cultures because the world is diverse and music can be a gateway to that process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OSHKOSH (WLUK) — Choir students at Vel Phillips Middle School in Oshkosh got a taste of San Jose,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-488554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}