Decolonising the music curriculum (introduction)

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In this video, I introduce the basic concepts of Decolonisation, and what it means for the Music Curriculum. At the outset: it doesn't mean we're getting rid of anything from the 'classical music' tradition. If anything, it means thinking and talking about so much more than that.

I stress that I am not an expert but it's important for all of us to be having conversations on this topic, so I'm starting one here. I haven't been able to cover everything, and there are certainly really important things that I've missed (and likely some things that I've got wrong, too). Please get involved - comment below with your thoughts. If you're a scholar - let me know some recommendations, or even better, suggest ways we might approach this in further videos.

In the process of putting this introduction together, I consulted a range of sources by authors from ethnically-diverse backgrounds across different areas of music education, music-making, and history (and I didn't get to mention all of them in the video). If you'd like to know more, here's a useful list to begin with:

Nikki Sanchez - 'Decolonization is for everyone': https://www.ted.com/talks/nikki_sanch...
Dan Hicks, 'The Brutish Musuems' (Pluto Press, 2020) (as recommended by MC Hammer!): http://www.plutobooks.com/97807453417...
Alejandro L. Madrid - 'Diversity, Tokenism, Non-Canonic Musics, and the Crisis of the Humanities in US Academia' https://www.ams-net.org/ojs/index.php...
Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, 'Decolonization is not a metaphor': https://clas.osu.edu/sites/clas.osu.e...
Margaret E. Walker, 'Towards a Decolonized Music History Curriculum': https://www.ams-net.org/ojs/index.php...
Nathan Holder's blog, '#DecoloniseMusicEd', which is a fantastic resource: https://www.nateholdermusic.com/blog
Philip Ewell, 'Music Theory and the White Racial Frame': https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.20.26.2...
William Fourie, 'Musicology and Decolonial Analysis in the Age of Brexit': https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa...
I've been enjoying more of the brilliant 'Down with the Patri-Bachy' podcast, exploring diverse repertoire outside the mainstream canon: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/...
And I've been enjoying the wonderful 'Classically Black' podcast, with Katie Brown and Delanie Harris: https://www.classicallyblackpodcast.c...

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