Diverse Voices in Music Scholarship and Repertoire

Decolonizing the Music Room is a nonprofit organization using research, training, and discourse to help music educators develop critical practices and center BBIA (Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Asian) voices, knowledge, and experiences in order to challenge the historical dominance of white Western European and American music, narratives, and practices. They regularly post videos and blogs from music educators of color.

Danielle Brown, PhD, started My People Tell Stories because as an ethnomusicologist working in academia, she became concerned with the lack of diversity in music studies. My People Tell Stories provide services in arts education, including professional development for teachers, artists, and researchers who seek to center diverse, inclusive, and equitable practices in their work. Check out there blog, workshops, projects, and documentary.

Christopher Mena is an Antiracist music teacher, consultant, and PhD candidate living in the Pacific Northwest. In this article, he discusses his personal experiences as a "'“melanined' Mexican American man" in predominantly white academic and music spaces, along with issues such such as tokenism and the need for white allies to accept criticism.

In his 6-part blog series, scholar and theory professor Phillip Ewell discusses music theory's foundations in white supremacy and how it can be confronted.

Dr. Danielle Brown is an artist, scholar, and entrepreneur, who earned a doctorate in Music from New York University with a concentration in ethnomusicology and specialization in the music of Latin America and the Caribbean. As a self-described Black, first-generation, Caribbean American woman from Brooklyn, New York, she discusses white supremacy's hold on ethnomusicology and music education, detailing the ways white music scholars and teachers exploit and silence the voices of BIPOC trying to promote social justice.

Classically Black Podcast shows listeners the world of classical music through the eyes of Dalanie and Katie: two Black classical musicians on the rise looking to share their perspective with a new and interesting twist. It centers Black voices and challenges ideas of what the field of classical music looks like.

An Urban Music Education Podcast hosted by Eric Jimenez and Justin McLean. They provide tips and strategies through honest discussions about their experience teaching music in an Urban setting. In this episode theydiscuss how the racial lines play a major role in the lives of educators.