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