Margaret Walker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3953006 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret Walker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-1264-5680 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1943 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
An Interview with Margaret Walker
Ethnicize and Historicize: Thoughts on Anti-Racist Pedagogy and Post-Secondary Music History
The “unmarked whiteness” at the core of most Canadian and US university music programs is an example of racist policy. Anti-racist actions that identify, describe, and dismantle racism can be productively applied to music history courses by adopting strategies outlined in the work of Kyoko Kishimoto. By exploring knowledge production through the historiography of canonic music, challenging Eurocentrism by teaching Western music as “ethnic,” and d…
Remodeler le récit traditionnel de l’histoire de la musique occidentale: Pistes Théoriques Et Pratiques Pour L’enseignement Universitaire
Dans un contexte de sensibilisation grandissante aux enjeux de décolonisation des savoirs et de l’enseignement au sein des universités, un nombre croissant de professeures et professeurs, au Canada comme ailleurs, cherchent à repenser leur rapport à une histoire de la musique centrée sur la tradition européenne. En musicologie, une discipline enracinée dans les épistémologies de l’Europe du xix e siècle, les voix sont variées et les idées, qu’ell…
The ‘Nautch’ Reclaimed: Women's Performance Practice in Nineteenth-Century North India
The hereditary women performers of north India, called ‘nautch girls’ by the colonial British, and courtesans or tawa'ifs by today's scholars, played a central role in the performance of music and dance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Substantial recent scholarship has focused on their songs, poems and cultural history; thus, this article addresses choreography, the missing part of their performance practice. Through a detailed examin…
In Memoriam: T. K. Govind Vidyarthi (1912– 2006)
In Memoriam:T. K. Govind Vidyarthi (1912–2006) Margaret E. Walker (bio) The name Govind Vidyarthi is familiar to many scholars of South Asian music only as the author of two translated chapters of the Urdu manuscript Ma'dan ul-Musiqi published in the Sangeet Natak Akademi Bulletin in the late 1950s (Vidyarthi 1959a, 1959b). His identity and background, not to mention how he came to publish these translations, is a mystery to most, and I have even…
Organizational Change-Too Much, Too Soon
Recent changes in government policies and practices, especially managed care, have led many nonprofit organizations to embrace collaboration as a competitive strategy. This article presents a case study of a large human service agency that has adopted a management service organization (MSO) model, a type of collaboration particularly suited to handling third-party contracts, at the urging of the founding CEO. A new governance model was also adopt…
Music as Knowledge in Shamanism and Other Healing Traditions of Siberia
Several presenters made the point that one cannot look at narrative alone, without taking into account the music, dance, and drumming that, in many settings, go along with it. One of these presenters was Marilyn Walker, who has had the good fortune to work with healers in Siberia. Although academic in approach, Marilyn’s paper also recognizes the importance of experiential ways of knowing. In her Quebec City presentation, she shared some of this …
Geographies of Responsibility
The problem of free will and determinism is an ancient philosophical conundrum. That venerable problem deals with the very theoretical question of whether our being responsible for anything makes any sense at all. In its oldest forms, it is a problem about the structure of the world in which we go about our lives: if there is fate, or divine foreknowledge, or universal mechanistic causality, do human beings really choose what they do? In some mor…
Geographies of Responsibility
New Poets (1950)
Southern Song: An Interview with Margaret Walker
Margaret Walker first drew critical acclaim in 1942, when Stephen Vincent Ben6t selected her collection of poetry For My People for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Twenty-four years later, Jubilee, her novel of the Civil War era, became a best seller and was translated into French, Spanish, and German. Currently Walker is again headed for the spotlight. In the fall of 1987 Dodd, Mead & Co. will bring out her long-awaited critical study, Richard Wr…
Poetry
Warwick County Records: Hearth Tax Returns, Vol. I. Hemlingford Hundred: Tamworth and Atherstone Divisions
Cuicateco: Morphemics and Morphophonemics
Negro Slave Songs in the United States
For My People
Music as Knowledge in Shamanism and Other Healing Traditions of Siberia
Several presenters made the point that one cannot look at narrative alone, without taking into account the music, dance, and drumming that, in many settings, go along with it. One of these presenters was Marilyn Walker, who has had the good fortune to work with healers in Siberia. Although academic in approach, Marilyn’s paper also recognizes the importance of experiential ways of knowing. In her Quebec City presentation, she shared some of this …
Cuicateco: Morphemics and Morphophonemics
For My People
Negro Slave Songs in the United States
Cuicateco: Morphemics and Morphophonemics
Warwick County Records: Hearth Tax Returns, Vol. I. Hemlingford Hundred: Tamworth and Atherstone Divisions
Poetry
Southern Song: An Interview with Margaret Walker
Margaret Walker first drew critical acclaim in 1942, when Stephen Vincent Ben6t selected her collection of poetry For My People for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Twenty-four years later, Jubilee, her novel of the Civil War era, became a best seller and was translated into French, Spanish, and German. Currently Walker is again headed for the spotlight. In the fall of 1987 Dodd, Mead & Co. will bring out her long-awaited critical study, Richard Wr…
New Poets (1950)
Geographies of Responsibility
The problem of free will and determinism is an ancient philosophical conundrum. That venerable problem deals with the very theoretical question of whether our being responsible for anything makes any sense at all. In its oldest forms, it is a problem about the structure of the world in which we go about our lives: if there is fate, or divine foreknowledge, or universal mechanistic causality, do human beings really choose what they do? In some mor…
Geographies of Responsibility
Organizational Change-Too Much, Too Soon
Recent changes in government policies and practices, especially managed care, have led many nonprofit organizations to embrace collaboration as a competitive strategy. This article presents a case study of a large human service agency that has adopted a management service organization (MSO) model, a type of collaboration particularly suited to handling third-party contracts, at the urging of the founding CEO. A new governance model was also adopt…
Music as Knowledge in Shamanism and Other Healing Traditions of Siberia
Several presenters made the point that one cannot look at narrative alone, without taking into account the music, dance, and drumming that, in many settings, go along with it. One of these presenters was Marilyn Walker, who has had the good fortune to work with healers in Siberia. Although academic in approach, Marilyn’s paper also recognizes the importance of experiential ways of knowing. In her Quebec City presentation, she shared some of this …
In Memoriam: T. K. Govind Vidyarthi (1912– 2006)
In Memoriam:T. K. Govind Vidyarthi (1912–2006) Margaret E. Walker (bio) The name Govind Vidyarthi is familiar to many scholars of South Asian music only as the author of two translated chapters of the Urdu manuscript Ma'dan ul-Musiqi published in the Sangeet Natak Akademi Bulletin in the late 1950s (Vidyarthi 1959a, 1959b). His identity and background, not to mention how he came to publish these translations, is a mystery to most, and I have even…
The ‘Nautch’ Reclaimed: Women's Performance Practice in Nineteenth-Century North India
The hereditary women performers of north India, called ‘nautch girls’ by the colonial British, and courtesans or tawa'ifs by today's scholars, played a central role in the performance of music and dance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Substantial recent scholarship has focused on their songs, poems and cultural history; thus, this article addresses choreography, the missing part of their performance practice. Through a detailed examin…
Remodeler le récit traditionnel de l’histoire de la musique occidentale: Pistes Théoriques Et Pratiques Pour L’enseignement Universitaire
Dans un contexte de sensibilisation grandissante aux enjeux de décolonisation des savoirs et de l’enseignement au sein des universités, un nombre croissant de professeures et professeurs, au Canada comme ailleurs, cherchent à repenser leur rapport à une histoire de la musique centrée sur la tradition européenne. En musicologie, une discipline enracinée dans les épistémologies de l’Europe du xix e siècle, les voix sont variées et les idées, qu’ell…
Ethnicize and Historicize: Thoughts on Anti-Racist Pedagogy and Post-Secondary Music History
The “unmarked whiteness” at the core of most Canadian and US university music programs is an example of racist policy. Anti-racist actions that identify, describe, and dismantle racism can be productively applied to music history courses by adopting strategies outlined in the work of Kyoko Kishimoto. By exploring knowledge production through the historiography of canonic music, challenging Eurocentrism by teaching Western music as “ethnic,” and d…
An Interview with Margaret Walker
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