Connecting the black music tradition with the black activist tradition, Party Music brings both into greater focus than ever before and reveals just how strongly the black power movement was felt on the streets of black America.
Black Music, White Halls: Toward a Black American Music Curriculum – ACT
Published in Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education 25 (1): 52–76 [pdf]. https://doi.org/10.22176/act25.1.52
Divining an Afrofuturist Music Education – ACT
Published in Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education 22 (4): 131–58. [pdf] https://doi.org/10.22176/act22.4.131
“Political violence!”: Chaotic school board meeting descends into screaming match over Stonewall
"Political violence is not something we praise with music or song!" one board member said as they voted to ban a musical composition.
Toward an Anti-Racist Music Education: A Critical Pedagogy of Popular Music Teacher Education
In this article, we propose a framework for a critical pedagogy of popular music for teacher education to better prepare music teachers to enact anti-racist praxis within their classrooms. Although a growing body of literature in music education addresses issues of racism within the field, fewer scholars have studied this within teacher education. Drawing from critical pedagogy, our framework centers popular music as a means for music teacher educators to interrogate issues of identity and power and (re)contextualize pedagogy, considering the socio-political contexts and communities from which music practices originate. These processes facilitate reflection on how racisms shape taken-for-granted practices within music education by centering the socio-political contexts of popular music. Through our framework, music teacher educators could prompt pre-service music educators to consider the multiple racialized epistemologies of musical value students and teachers bring to the classroom, working toward the possibility of enacting a multicentric approach to music education.
Music has Meaning
The social platform for discovering music, collecting tracks, and supporting artists directly. Only verified artists post.
The Ascendance of Bay Area Dance Music
The contemporary sound of Bay Area dance music is high-energy, omnivorous, and life-affirming.
The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland
"Tearing down myths and distortions on virtually every page, The Revolution Has Come is the first substantive account of the Black Panther Party’s Oakland chapter—the iconic gathering that birthed the party and held on to its very last breath. Robyn C. Spencer’s incisive attention to gender, state repression, black radical alliances, philosophical and ideological debates, and the organization’s long decline makes this one of the most original studies of the Panthers to appear in years." - Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
Everyone Plays the Same Song
A community music project where participants cover the same song in their own unique style
REIMAGINING INCLUSIVE MUSIC EDUCATION: REFLECTIONS FROM A BLACK MUSIC EDUCATOR - ProQuest
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DJs
Diana Ratsamee is a Lao-American musician, producer, and DJ based out of Seattle, Washington. Her passions lie in connecting people through storytelling, sound, and movement. She’s played at events and festivals throughout the Seattle underground dance scene and led experience design and programming for the Seattle Chinatown International Block Party and festivals throughout Washington. Diana grew up between the CID and south Seattle. Her musical inspiration comes from her father, a Lao refugee who fled his home country of Laos to Seattle with dreams of becoming a musician. Navigating this new life in America, her father found refuge in music by playing in both an American and Lao rock band. Diana grew up watching her father take the stage in concert halls and small venues in the Lao community. This inspired her to explore the music and sounds that brought joy and unity to her community. Her musical loves range from everything between disco to psychedelic Southeast Asian rock, city pop to traditional morlum music. Her musical diversity mirrors her dedication to celebrating unity and inclusivity through music.
Bay Area Hip-Hop | That’s My Word | KQED
A Year-Long Exploration of Bay Area Hip-Hop History
FWAAMFest
Tufara Waller Muhammad's presents her interactive session "Soundtrack of Resistance: Music and Social Movements in the U.S. South." Photo by Justin Ikpo.
Dance to the Music (Sly and the Family Stone album)
Dance to the Music is the second studio album by American funk-soul band Sly and the Family Stone, released in April 1968 on Epic and CBS Records. It contains the Top Ten hit single of the same name, which was influential in the formation and popularization of the musical subgenre of psychedelic soul and helped lay the groundwork for the development of funk music.
Not a genuine black man : my life as an outsider : [a true story] : Copeland, Brian
xviii, 245 pages ; 23 cm
