Teaching difficult topics : reflections from the undergraduate music classroom / Olivia R. Lucas and Laura Moore Pruett, editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lucas, Olivia R.

Contributor:

Lucas, Olivia R., editor.

Pruett, Laura Moore, editor.

Series:

Music and social justice.

Music and Social Justice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music in universities and colleges--United States.

Music in universities and colleges.

Music--Instruction and study--United States.

Music.

Music and race--United States.

Music and race.

Antisemitism in music.

Anti-racism--United States.

Anti-racism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume : illustrations, music)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2024.

Summary:

Teaching Difficult Topics provides a series of on-the-ground reflections from college music instructors working in a wide variety of institutional settings about their approaches to inclusive, supportive pedagogy in the music classroom. Although some imagine the music classroom to be an apolitical space, instructors find themselves increasingly in need of resources for incorporating issues of race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and historical trauma into their classrooms in ways that support student learning and safeguard their classroom communities. The teaching reflections in Teaching Difficult Topics examine difficult themes that fall into three primary categories: subjects that instructors sense to be controversial or emotionally challenging to discuss, those that derive from or intersect with real-world events that are difficult to process, and bigger-picture discussions of how music studies often focuses on dominant narratives while overlooking other perspectives. Some chapters offer practical guidance, lesson plans, and teaching materials to enable instructors to build discussions of race, gender, sexuality, and traumatic histories into their own classrooms; others take a more global view, reflecting on the importance and relevance of teaching these difficult topics and on how to respond in the music classroom when external events disrupt daily life.

Contents:

Part I. Music and dynamics of power. Success and music education / John R. Pippen ; Teaching music and the Holocaust / Jessica Grimmer ; Teaching difficult topics in large enrollment classes / Kelsey Klotz ; Decentering whiteness in the music appreciation classroom / Everette Scott Smith ; Opera and masculinity / Sean M. Parr

Part II. Social justice, activism and decolonization, and building resilience. Beyond the canon / Annalise Smith ; Asking non-majors to music in reclamation and remix projects / April L. Prince ; "Decolonizing" the music in Canada course / Colette Simonot-Maiello ; Reimagining Indigenous existence in period performance practice in the academic classroom / Breana H. McCullough ; Less is more / Trudi Wright

Part III. Critical race studies. Transdisciplinary antiracism research and teaching as a foundation for revising music coursework / John Spilker-Beed ; Discussing white nationalist music in the shadow of the Christchurch Mosque shootings / Olivia R. Lucas ; Don't you cry for me / Philip Ewell and Megan Lyons ; Stephen Foster and slavery in music textbooks / Christopher Lynch ; The jazz of a Black ethnographer / Whitney Slaten.

Notes:

Title from eBook information screen..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472904594

0472904590

OCLC:

1436704978

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access