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Art and music resources to help educators bring a global perspective into their classrooms.
Decolonizing the Music Room
"We disrupt the minimization and erasure of racially minoritized identities to build a more equitable future."
Decolonizing the music room is nonprofit organization centering the voices of Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Asian people in music education. They provide training and educational content to pre-service as well as in-service music teachers. |
Mai Mai Research Blog
Mai Mai is the research blog for intercultural multi-instrumentalist, composer, researcher, and music educator Jon Silpayamanant. Find here important resources on decolonizing music, slave orchestras and classical music imperialism.
From his bio: "As a biracial Thai American with musical families on both sides of the world, he has been navigating musical code switching and bimusicality for much of his life and uses that experience to inform his understanding of how music ecosystems interact, hybridize, and create systems of exclusion." |
Smithsonian Folkways
Smithsonian Folkways holds an enormous collection of folk and indigenous music from all over the world. They also have an interactive map of sample lesson plans to get you started teaching global music. Each lesson contains links to readings as well as recordings, and are flexible enough in structure they can be altered to fit your needs
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Mama Lisa's World
Mama Lisa's World is a collection of children's songs, nursery rhymes and stories from all over the world. Each song posted includes lyrics, an English translation, and links to recordings for you to explore. These songs are collected from ordinary people and are a good place to start when looking to explore music from around the world.
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BandLab For Education
BandLab is a powerful, cloud based digital audio workstation (DAW) that is 100% free. Students can write, record and share original compositions, podcasts and more in this remarkable program. The education version allows teachers to set up classrooms, post assignments and communicate directly with students. BandLab is COPPA compliant and integrates with Google Classroom.
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