Helpful Resources for Music Teachers

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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

Carnegie Hall | Music lessons from around the world

https://www.carnegiehall.org/Education/Programs/Musical-Explorers/Digital

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

https://www.facebook.com/musicbyblackcomposers/photos/avril-coleridge-taylor-1903-1998-was-an-english-pianist-conductor-and-composer-a/674333289396876/

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

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqHFh54O-uD-RppjTPj9Ag36VSboiPQso&fbclid=IwAR34EiAeZ6Kbzr-24m2NWv6mAPT9c3BApVJkrUmhzNHKJTGQTJEWa9LZuW4&app=desktop

The REAL Origin Of The Song "Funga Alafia" - Hint It Isn't A Liberian Song, Or A Nigerian Song, Or A Traditional African Song

https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-real-origin-of-song-funga-alafia.html?fbclid=IwAR0dyuHEnmpGEufErzjO4nVuTSGuLJtSqRtrvbez3Z0BlKmI1e-4CiESwcE

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

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/entertainment-arts-37709257/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

https://www.musicpeacebuilding.com/ep8-decolonizing?fbclid=IwAR0I-1B3WLrg-SkZA8EkIaSKwLghU_Z6I255IyBvt9e0pUwP0FZBHOXz-ms

A Racist Music | Errolyn Wallen | BBC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000bmrr?fbclid=IwAR0elFkUXdjmeftzXL0HZlw3NKAMHGvn7TzFogobFNjuoBMsYkHtD3r2c0M

Music Matter

Race, equality and classical music | BBC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000kv61

Music Schools and White Supremacy with Loren Kajikawa

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1114601/4700222?fbclid=IwAR0VzVe_Eq9_z6WpCFXmtDXGjUsIAEC-r4tAEKkXO29PFubElUUIYN5-zfM

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