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Teaching Difficult Topics: Reflections from the Undergraduate Music Classroom (Music and Social Justice) - Softcover

Olivia R. Lucas, Laura Moore Pruett

 
9780472056965: Teaching Difficult Topics: Reflections from the Undergraduate Music Classroom (Music and Social Justice)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0472056964 ISBN 13: 9780472056965
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press, 2024

Synopsis

Teaching Difficult Topics provides a series of on-the-ground reflections from college music instructors working in a wide variety of institutional settings about their approaches to inclusive, supportive pedagogy in the music classroom. Although some imagine the music classroom to be an apolitical space, instructors find themselves increasingly in need of resources for incorporating issues of race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and historical trauma into their classrooms in ways that support student learning and safeguard their classroom communities. The teaching reflections in Teaching Difficult Topics examine difficult themes that fall into three primary categories: subjects that instructors sense to be controversial or emotionally challenging to discuss, those that derive from or intersect with real-world events that are difficult to process, and bigger-picture discussions of how music studies often focuses on dominant narratives while overlooking other perspectives. Some chapters offer practical guidance, lesson plans, and teaching materials to enable instructors to build discussions of race, gender, sexuality, and traumatic histories into their own classrooms; others take a more global view, reflecting on the importance and relevance of teaching these difficult topics and on how to respond in the music classroom when external events disrupt daily life.

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About the Author

Olivia R. Lucas is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Louisiana State University.
Laura Moore Pruett is an Associate Professor of Music at Merrimack College.

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Publisher
The University of Michigan Press
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0472056964
ISBN 13 
9780472056965
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
320