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Race, Racism, and Representation in Music Education

Sun, April 15, 2:45 to 4:15pm, New York Marriott Marquis, Floor: Fourth Floor, O'Neill

Session Type: Paper Session

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Descriptive research in music education over the past decade has repeatedly shown that American music education—both in K-12 and postsecondary schools—has a racial and socioeconomic homogeneity problem. The racial issues were brought to the fore in a 2016 controversy wherein the former executive director of NAfME, music education’s main professional association and the publisher of the field’s top tier scientific journals, lost his job after claiming the profession and the association lacked diversity because of the poor musical skills of African American and Latino students. In this session, music education researchers and scholars confront thorny issues of race in music education broadly: at the K-12 student, preservice, and in-service levels and within the academy.

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