1st Edition
Culturally Responsive Teaching in a High School Percussion Ensemble Validating Immigrant Identities
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The Setting: Introduction to The World Percussion Ensemble Classroom
Chapter 2. The Strategy: Saunders’s Visions for the Somerville Music Program
Chapter 3. The Story: Marcus Santos and Cultural Responsiveness in The World Percussion Ensemble
Chapter 4. The Experience: WPE Students in the Context of Immigration
Chapter 5. The Results: Impacts of Culturally Responsive Teaching in the World Percussion Ensemble
Chapter 6. The Implications: Transferring Methods from WPE to Other Music Education Programs
Biography
Christiana Athena-Blackwell is a music educator, ethnomusicologist, songwriter, and performer. Her research centers on themes of identity expression through music, and music of the African Diaspora in the Americas. Currently, she teaches music in Central Vermont, USA. She has an MA in Ethnomusicology from Tufts University and a PhD in Music Education from the Pennsylvania State University.
