2014年7月8日 · Diversity proves a critical, central consideration in teaching music in the United States context. A course in “Music in the United States” might be organized thematically to explore approaches to the study of “humanly organized sound” through a cross-cultural perspective. Music expresses complex epistemologies and multivalent values.

2010年8月17日 · From nuanced snapshots of how African American musical genres have flourished in different cities and the role of these genres in local activism, to explorations of musical pedagogy on the American college campus, readers will be challenged to think of how activism and social justice work might appear in American higher education and in ...

2020年10月13日 · As the College of Music enters its second century, there’s one group at the college whose mission is to make sure this new era stands for inclusion. The Diverse Musicians’ Alliance, or DiMA for short, has been providing community and an equal stage for first-generation and underrepresented students since 2004.

The Black music and culture major analyzes how the brilliance, resilience, and hope of Black creative expression has influenced music and culture across the globe. Students engage with and contextualize the historical, social, artistic, and cultural contributions of the global African diaspora at the intersection of arts and culture, namely ...

Upending simplistic narratives of racial essentialism that persist in discourses about music, the course will challenge students to reconsider their assumptions about how ideas of race and ethnicity are sounded and heard in the performance of American popular music.

2022年2月9日 · This guide will include resources like books, articles, videos, documentaries and music that represent and celebrate black musicians, and how their experience and accomplishments have permeated the fight for cultural freedom and racial equality.

2024年3月5日 · Classical music, in many ways, remains inaccessible to many aspiring musicians. Class, race, ethnicity, and gender, among other aspects of identity, strongly impact how much or little access people have to classical music education and careers.

Jazz Musicians John Coltrane is considered to be one of the leading jazz artists from the 1950s and 1960s. Well known for his improvised, free-form solos on the saxophone, he performed with such...

2024年11月12日 · In order to expose more band and orchestra directors to the music of living composers historically marginalized by race or gender, And We Were Heard seeks to match these composers with ensembles willing to rehearse and create high-quality recordings of their work.

2019年12月19日 · By studying these musical crossroads between nations, he deals with topics such as “migration, racial politics across borders, and the various ways in which identity is configured.” Vad found this to be apparent in a series of 1978 interviews with Austrian jazz musician Joe Zawinul.