DECOLONIZATION THEORY AND PRACTICE
compiled by Racial Equity Tools
From Racial Equity Tools: “We curate resources that use language and analysis reflecting an understanding of systemic racism, power, and privilege and are accessible online and free to users.” This resources page provides conceptual and practice-based content on decolonization from multiple creators and disciplines.
DECOLONIZATION IS NOT A METAPHOR
by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang
SLAVERY IS NOT A METAPHOR: A CRITICAL COMMENTARY ON EVE TUCK AND K. WAYNE YANG’S “DECOLONIZATION IS NOT A METAPHOR”
by Tapji Garba and Sara-Maria Sorentino
https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12615
ACCESSING THE INSIDE OF THE TENT: THE OPTICS OF INCLUSIVITY IN MUSIC EDUCATION
by Christopher Mena
LIVE WITH CARNEGIE HALL: RHIANNON GIDDENS WITH FRANCESCO TURRISI
Join Rhiannon Giddens and her partner, multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, as they lead us through the music and history of minstrelsy—the most popular form of entertainment in America during the 1800s. In this episode of Live with Carnegie Hall, they restore minstrelsy to its global context through the journeys of the banjo and the tambourine, and in tracing those journeys show what there is to reproach versus celebrate in the birth of American music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW6rjMSVZwM
"BE REAL BLACK FOR ME": IMAGINING BLACK CRIT IN EDUCATION
by Michael J. Dumas and kihana miraya ross
Urban Education 2016 Vol. 51 (4) 415-442
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0042085916628611?journalCode=uexa
CONTESTING THE CURRICULUM IN THE SCHOOLING OF INDIGENOUS CHILDREN IN AUSTRALIA AND THE USA:
From Eurocentrism to Culturally Powerful Pedagogies
by Anne Hickling-hudson and Roberta Ahlquist
Comparative Education Review Vol. 47, No. 1, pg. 64-89
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/345837
WOKE PEDAGOGY: A FRAMEWORK FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
by Altheria Caldera
Diversity, Social Justice, and the Educational Leader Vol. 2, No. 3
https://scholarworks.uttyler.edu/dsjel/vol2/iss3/1/
EDUCATION FOR LIBERATION NETWORK
"EdLib is a national network founded and primarily facilitated by folks of color, that focuses on liberatory education by connecting a spectrum of members through the honest love and work of communities. We are an empowering and welcoming community that both inspires people and helps them learn and grow in ways that support a more just society."
WOKE KINDERGARTEN
"Anti-racist, pro liberation, and pro abolition" page, created by akiea "ki" gross, that provides resources for teachers to share with their young students. You can also find Woke Kindergarten on Facebook.
https://www.wokekindergarten.org/
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN- NATIVE KNOWLEDGE 360 EDUCATION INITIATIVE
A broad range of resources, workshops, and programs for teaching and learning about Native American cultures for educators and students.
https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360
DECOLONIZING THE MUSIC SURVEY: A MANIFESTO
by David Chavannes and Maria Ryan
http://www.dchavannes.com/read/2018/6/15/rygmnk175vgepbyn29p0zn0imrss9r
"YOU MIGHT BE LEFT WITH SILENCE WHEN YOU'RE DONE":
The White Fear of Taking Racist Songs Out of Music Education
by Martin Urbach
MY PEOPLE TELL STORIES, LLC
Dr. Danielle Brown is the founder and owner of My People Tell Stories, LLC. An author, musician, researcher, and educator, Dr. Brown uses music to teach history and culture.
"My People Tell Stories was started based on the premise that people of color need to tell and interpret their own stories. We provide educational, cultural, and performance-based services that center on the people of the African diaspora with a specific focus on the Caribbean region. We develop, make, and distribute creative works towards the aim of healing mind, body, spirit, and soul."
https://www.mypeopletellstories.com/
HISTORY OF MINSTRELS: FROM "JUMP JIM CROW" TO "THE JAZZ SINGER"
An online exhibit from the University of South Florida on the history of blackface minstrelsy, highlighting the creation and rise of America's first popular music and stereotypes from the art form that persist to this day.
http://exhibits.lib.usf.edu/exhibits/show/minstrelsy/jimcrow-to-jolson/jump-jim-crow/
MUSICAL PASSAGE
From "Musical Passage: " Musical Passage tells the story of an important, but little known record of early African diasporic music."
"Enslaved Africans and their descendants revolutionized global music historical records tell us far too little about their earliest practices. In this site we offer a careful interpretation of a single rare artifact, from Hans Sloane's 1707 Voyage to the Islands of Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica. Tucked away in this centuries-old book, are several pieces of music that make it possible to hear echoes of performances long past."
http://www.musicalpassage.org/
#DECOLONISEMUSICED
"Nate Holder BA, MMus is a musician, author, speaker and music education consultant based in London. He is an advocate for decolonising music education and has been writing, speaking and consulting on the subject for the last five years."
Holder's blog shares his decolonizing approaches through many aspects of music: teaching, listening, music making, history.
https://www.nateholdermusic.com/blog
MAE MAI
"Since 2005, the blog Mae Mai examines music and culture through a postcolonial lens. By looking at music ecosystems worldwide the blog decenters Eurocentric and white musics by highlighting the musics of minority and underrepresented groups. It’s crucial to understand how cultural ecosystems of marginalized groups have been preserved, and in many cases flourished, through a history of colonialism and racial-supremacy if we are to understand how to dismantle, deconstruct, and decolonize privileged music ecosystems.
Born in Udon Thani, Thailand Jon Silpayamanant is an intercultural multi-instrumentalist, composer, and music educator based in the greater Louisville and Kentuckiana area. As a biracial Thai American with musical families on both sides of the world, he has been navigating musical code switching and bimusicality for much of his life and uses that experience to inform his understanding of how music ecosystems interact, hybridize, and create systems of exclusion."
https://silpayamanant.wordpress.com/
HIP-HOP MUSIC ED
"The place where hip-hop and music education meet. Hip-hop is a collage of a variety of elements from American culture. Hip-Hop Music Ed is asking for more inclusion of more popular forms of American music into the discourse around music education. Culturally relevant and sustaining pedagogies centered on serving music students and educators in the 21st century."
AMERICAN INDIAN POWWOWS- SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR FOLKLIFE AND CULTURAL HERITAGE
Online exhibition containing introduction, history, performance, regalia, spirituality, and further context and reading on powwows.
https://folklife.si.edu/online-exhibitions/american-indian-powwows/smithsonian
COLORS OF CLASSICAL MUSIC
Sharing BIPOC western classical music stories & looking towards a more inclusive/representative future.