Nate Holder
- Jul 1, 2020
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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

https://stevesmusicroom.wordpress.com/2020/06/28/flute-is-not-a-woodwind-instrument-re-imagining-challenging-western-instrument-families/?fbclid=IwAR0eDdsvn5zMaqDwcBvA0uWbZXvXFsUuSXIAKnI3CRJdIKLxBiknJ5DFOLk

An Open Letter on Racism in Music Studies | Danielle Brown

https://www.mypeopletellstories.com/blog/open-letter?fbclid=IwAR3XGrhGPBVyFKq7wFALOC57VHIrpb4VW5_eOcYzRBzdi9Hc-usJDMDNMVQ

A Guide to Coded Language in Education Vol. I & II

https://classtrouble.club/blogs/resonance-archives/a-guide-to-coded-language-in-education-vol-i?fbclid=IwAR0qawbSsERXt5_UxjevdlF4cKjpdYA9UJbeyoIOvSB_KDz7c8TzQ0dEOMg

Music Theory and the White Racial Frame | Philip A. Ewell

https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.20.26.2/mto.20.26.2.ewell.html?fbclid=IwAR3NtXn6kNy34f-SqKJ6rCkFrE5MS93CQ3y9QUdWEakbKZ5zm0cOicjFiVI

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V8xcAZRQ8gzEdOUNKkS2OUhLTz4WpbPdWGKsnvYRid4/edit?fbclid=IwAR2H0Lm1RsliAK9pJEl4i1ZS8e8lf85xAu8H3FqQS962npYzralCco293s8#gid=0

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

https://medium.com/@desoliver/sharps-response-falls-flat-classism-and-racism-in-classical-music-58121343e8e9

Being a Black Ph.D. Student Following George Floyd’s Murder | Clifton Boyd

https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2020/06/11/black-phd-student-describes-having-balance-his-career-prospects-responding-racial?fbclid=IwAR3W9SoAtnj_kdCdV82k22NdjG4yBm9NoMWUvruZccgY0psTH1Bp5sV7fbE

Race, Blacksound, and the (Re)Making of Musicological Discourse | Matthew D. Morrison

https://online.ucpress.edu/jams/article/72/3/781/107058/Race-Blacksound-and-the-Re-Making-of-Musicological

Race and early European music (Open Resource) | Dr Joseph W. Mason

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YtvXXzppkPHvbEnzng2lQdDiL6EIiWDmeGUy-IXuhMg/edit#heading=h.lquawh897zc9

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.”

https://thelasttrombone.com/2020/06/28/trombone-players-its-time-to-bury-henry-fillmores-lassus-trombone/?fbclid=IwAR0wHyfMadbacopxUY78b0TqWAhJZt0-cCt7sImFzj6rvc0Mbdo_AO04c0c

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

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/was-beethoven-black-and-why-might-be-wrong-question-ask-180975159/

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

https://medium.com/@christopher.r.mena/accessing-the-inside-of-the-tent-the-optics-of-inclusivity-in-music-education-eb140a1f46e7

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

https://www.rhinegold.co.uk/classical_music/problematising-the-future-of-uk-music-conservatoires-diversifying-through-decolonising/

'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

https://theartsdesk.com/classical-music/we-must-channel-energy-and-pain-being-expressed-right-now-chi-chi-nwanoku-obe-time

Teaching Music History – Without the Lies | Chris Woods

https://chriswoodsgroove.co.uk/blog/

Contemporary Black composers you should know

https://www.cpr.org/2021/01/27/refresh-your-sonic-palette-contemporary-black-composers-you-should-know/?fbclid=IwAR1FWRiNMOAvo5Rq9dn-UaUVnsUN3Vs1T1GrIRtm8H9GH-K7NqmwXW-DTgU

Chevalier de Saint Georges x Mozart

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/classical/features/chevalier-de-saint-georges-man-who-got-under-mozart-s-skin-a6859191.html

His Name Is Joseph Boulogne, Not ‘Black Mozart’

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/arts/music/black-mozart-joseph-boulogne.html?fbclid=IwAR03bBh6Am2-Xaax0D7Xd1OrYu0pFgeNmC5me8P9oney59zxxG-V_XH2v6E

Anti-Colonial Orchestras: A Cultural Response to Classical Music Imperialism | John Silpayamanant

https://silpayamanant.wordpress.com/2021/02/19/anti-colonial-orchestras-a-cultural-response-to-classical-music-imperialism/?fbclid=IwAR1T3RV396rByE4K4CdTv6AXLYJuvxiNO2C2IECoOwG1tC6pkUzMG-s6pa4

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