Helpful Resources for Music Teachers
Updated: Mar 10, 2022
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Decolonise The Curriculum - Music | Jimmy Rotherham
https://theteacherist.com/2020/05/03/decolonise-the-curriculum-music/
The Racial Politics of Music Education | Ethan Hein
http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2020/the-racial-politics-of-music-education/
What Can Music Teachers Do for Black Lives? | Emily
http://www.rebelmusicteacher.com/blog/2020/5/30/what-can-music-teachers-do-for-black-lives
George Floyd - We Cannot Stay Silent | Nate Holder https://theteacherist.com/2020/05/28/injustice-we-cannot-stay-silent/
Facilitating musical learning in Scottish Primary Schools: an interview-based study of generalist primary teachers’, primary music specialists’ and community music practitioners’ views and experiences | Dr Diljeet Kaur Bhachu
https://era.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1842/36622/Bhachu2019.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Cultural colonialism, academic rigor, or both? A study of ABRSM examinations in Northern China | Le Zhang
http://www-usr.rider.edu/~vrme/v34n1/visions/Zhang_ABRSM_Examinations.pdf
The Flute is Not a Woodwind Instrument: Re-imagining and Challenging the Western Instrument Families | Steve Giddings
An Open Letter on Racism in Music Studies | Danielle Brown
A Guide to Coded Language in Education Vol. I & II
Music Theory and the White Racial Frame | Philip A. Ewell
Dinah, Put Down Your Horn: Blackface Minstrel Songs Don’t Belong in Music Class | Dr. Katya Ermolaeva
https://gen.medium.com/dinah-put-down-your-horn-154b8d8db12a
Choral Composers Recommended on DTMR | Kelsey Millerschin Gamza
Decolonizing music education: Moving beyond tokenism | Juliet Hess
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0255761415581283
Stormzy vs Mozart vs Music Education | Max Wheeler
https://network.youthmusic.org.uk/stormzy-vs-mozart-vs-music-education
Classism and Racism in Classical Music | Des Oliver
Being a Black Ph.D. Student Following George Floyd’s Murder | Clifton Boyd
Race, Blacksound, and the (Re)Making of Musicological Discourse | Matthew D. Morrison
Race and early European music (Open Resource) | Dr Joseph W. Mason
Non-European musical cultures before 1600 (Open Resource) | Dr Joseph W. Mason
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LquYoVb4sfRRyiDLINrRzgLrMhKaPiT1VqJ43NeHfIE/edit
Trombone players: It’s time to bury Henry Fillmore’s “Lassus Trombone.”
Sounds Like... Black Music Matters | Yorkshire Youth & Music
https://www.yym.org.uk/blog/sounds-like-black-music-matters
Was Beethoven Black? Probably Not, but These Unsung Composers Were
Black Women Composers in Chicago: Then and Now | Helen Walker-Hill
https://www.jstor.org/stable/779279?seq=1
Debussy’s Cakewalk. Race, Modernism and Music in Early Twentieth-Century Paris | James Deaville
https://revuemusicaleoicrm.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/RMO_vol.2.1_Deaville.pdf
Accessing the Inside of the Tent: The Optics of Inclusivity in Music Education | Christopher Mena
Equity in Music Education: Exclusionary Practices in Music Education | Jacqueline Kelly-McHale
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0027432117744755?journalCode=mejc
Activities that Promote Racial and Cultural Awareness | Barbara Biles
https://www.pbs.org/kcts/preciouschildren/diversity/read_activities.html
Diversifying through decolonising at UK conservatoires
'We must channel the energy and pain that is being expressed right now': Chi-chi Nwanoku OBE on time for action on diversity in classical music | Chi-chi Nwanoku
Teaching Music History – Without the Lies | Chris Woods
https://chriswoodsgroove.co.uk/blog/
Contemporary Black composers you should know
Chevalier de Saint Georges x Mozart
His Name Is Joseph Boulogne, Not ‘Black Mozart’
Anti-Colonial Orchestras: A Cultural Response to Classical Music Imperialism | John Silpayamanant
Carnegie Hall | Music lessons from around the world
https://www.carnegiehall.org/Education/Programs/Musical-Explorers/Digital
Music theory examples by women
https://musictheoryexamplesbywomen.com/
12 Childhood Nursery Rhymes You Didn't Realise Were Racist
https://nafme.org/you-might-be-left-with-silence-when-youre-done/
"You Might Be Left With Silence" The White Fear of Taking Racist Songs Out of Music Education | Martin Urbach
Christopher Emdin https://twitter.com/chrisemdin
Ethan Hein https://twitter.com/ethanhein
Dr Diljeet Kaur Bhachu https://twitter.com/DiljeetB_Flute
Emily https://twitter.com/rebelmusicteach
Travis G-Zinnel https://twitter.com/traviszinnel
Timothy Jones https://twitter.com/tdj6899
Joe Guarr https://twitter.com/jguarr
Institute For Composer Diversity https://twitter.com/ComposerProject
Dr Anna Bull https://twitter.com/anna_bull_
Daniel Green https://twitter.com/DanielGreen9
Dr Kira Thurman https://twitter.com/kira_thurman
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in Music Studies https://twitter.com/EDIMusicStudies
BRITISH BLACK MUSIC https://twitter.com/BBMBMC
Black Music Research https://twitter.com/cbmrccc
Music by Black Composers - MBC
Black Lives Matter, Music Ed, and Current Discourse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuLfTL7Ykwc&feature=youtu.be
Reality Pedagogy: Christopher Emdin at TEDxTeachersCollege
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y9tVf_8fqo
Decolonising Music Education
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JZcLs3eV7U&t=1s
61 Black Composers: Solo Piano Works
The REAL Origin Of The Song "Funga Alafia" - Hint It Isn't A Liberian Song, Or A Nigerian Song, Or A Traditional African Song
Racism in music industry: Robert Glasper shows racial inequality in music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiVLZGYJwUE
Prof. Shirley J. Thompson OBE Interview | Identity & Aesthetic: Five British-Caribbean Composers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzTqBlGfbdk
Composer Eleanor Alberga on race in classical music
Music Theory and White Supremacy | Adam Neely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3quGh7pJA&t=2254s
Music Theory and the White Racial Frame | Phillip Ewell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpetWiFLXUo
Pod The Score - Ep.34 White Fragility In Music Education
http://podthescore.buzzsprout.com/493009/3992723-ep-34-white-fragility-in-music-education
Music and Peacebuilding - Ep. 8 Decolonizing the Music Room with Brandi Waller-Pace
A Racist Music | Errolyn Wallen | BBC
Race, equality and classical music | BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000kv61
Music Schools and White Supremacy with Loren Kajikawa
Classical Commonweath - Errollyn Wallen unravels the story of how classical music fused with local musical traditions across the British Commonwealth, speaking to acclaimed conductor Zubin Mehta, soprano Patricia Rozario, composer and kora player Tunde Jegede and others.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000sht9
Trilloquy | Garrett McQueen & Scott Blankenship
https://www.trilloquy.org/opuses
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education (Race, Education, and Democracy) - Christopher Emdin
Blues People: The Negro Experience In White America And The Music That Developed From It - LeRoi Jones
Me and White Supremacy - Layla Saad
Sounds Like London: 100 Years of Black Music in the Capital - Lloyd Bradley