1st Edition

Music Studies and Its Moment of Truth: Leading Change through America's Black Music Roots CMS Emerging Fields in Music

By Edward Sarath Copyright 2024
132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

Music Studies and Its Moment of Truth: Leading Change through America’s Black Music Roots presents a new framework for racial justice discourse in the context of music studies and education. Centering on Black American Music, the book issues challenges to both the conventional music studies paradigm and decades-old reform efforts. While Black American Music ranks high among America’s... Read more

PART I: Critiquing the Critique 1 Initiation 2 Music of the Common Tongue 3 From Multicultural Slumber to Transcultural Awakening 4 The Whitewashing of Musicking: More Than a Small Thing 5 Philosophical Malpractice 6 Lifting the Veil on Linguistic Racism 7 The Word Jazz 8 From Deficit to Evolutionary Narratives 9 The Structure of Musical Racism: Anatomy of a Third Pandemic. PART II: Elevating Change Leadership 10 Dismantling Activist Homogeneity 11 Juxtapositional Activism 12 K-12 Music Teacher Education as Ground Zero 13 Epitaph for a Core Curriculum That Never Was 14 White Music Matters 15 Musicology Next: Improvisation, Sound, Soul, Cosmos.

Biography

Edward Sarath is Professor of Music at the University of Michigan, USA, and Founder and Co-Director of the University of Michigan Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies. He was Founding Chair of the University of Michigan Department of Jazz and Contemporary Music Studies.