Avoiding the "P" Word
Political Contexts and Multicultural Music Education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4256113 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Deborah Bradley (University of Wisconsin–Madison, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 188-195 |
| Publication date | 2012-07-24 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory Into Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-5841 • E-ISSN: 1527-2532 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00405841.2012.690296 |
| OpenAlex | W1999178541 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 12 |
Socio-historical contexts are integral to both general and music educational practices. However, when music teacher education candidates ask such questions as, “How can we engage in musics outside of the accepted canon and talk about these issues in my class without being accused by parents or administrators of being ‘political?’” they restrict possibilities for engaging with context meaningfully. Yet students, in their complex and often sophisticated musical lives outside of the formal institute of schooling, carry out these kinds of discussions and understandings with ease and nonchalance. Using the companion lenses of critical race theory and antiracism education, this article explores the reluctance of some music educators to engage those socio-historical contexts deemed political within multicultural and world music, asking: Without such contextualization, how is cross-cultural or intercultural understanding possible? Notes 1. Ethnomusicology is the study of the music of a culture or subculture, considered either as a combination of sounds or as an aspect of socio-cultural behavior; also, the comparative study of the music of more than one culture (Oxford English Dictionary, http://www.oed.com). 2. A comparison here might be to the controversial new edition of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, which excised all derogatory slang words describing African Americans
Aesthetics · Art · Call and response · Context (archaeology · Contextualization · Ethnomusicology · Linguistics · Media studies · Multicultural education · Multiculturalism · Music education · Music history · Musical · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Slang · Sociology · Violin musical styles · Visual arts · Critical Race Theory in Education · Diverse Music Education Insights · History · Law · Music History and Culture
Composition, Policy, and the Formation of Agency
Doing Away with Music
The Impact of the Soundscape on University Life
Fostering Critical Reflection and Productive Dialogue in Music Teacher Education
(Re)organizing the music curriculum as multicultural music education
Universal Tropes and Salvation Hopes
At the Boundary of Sound and Faith
Bridging Tradition and Modernity
Cultural Humility in Music Teacher Education
Toward an Anti-Racist Music Education
The Emergence of Children’s Multicultural Sensitivity
K–12 Music Educators’ Perceptions of Social Media Use and Social Justice Engagement
Revealing the Invisible
Racism and Education
Playing in the dark
Representing Whiteness in the Black Imagination
Racism Without Racists
White Privilege
Critical Race Theory in Education
Artistic Citizenship
Critical race theory
Just what is critical race theory and what's it doing in a nice field like education
| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |