Anti-Racist Music Practice:




Replanting the Frame

The word music theory has historically been used to describe the analysis of 18th and 19th century composers of Western white European descent.

This archive serves as a guide to de-stabilize the word "music theory" and its ties with white supremacy in the classroom.
 
This archive seeks to provide resources for professors and teachers beginning anti-racist practices into the musical classroom.

You can find resources for understanding the history of racism in music, what constitutes as racist practice, and lessons in anti-racist music practice, such as anti-racist music theory and providing anti-racist repertoire. 

This archive is inspired by Black Feminisms, How we get free: The Combahee River Collective Statement by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor,
and  Philip Ewell's article, Music Theory and the White Racial Frame, which divulges how music education upholds white supremacy through reliance of white European Western Art music from the 18th and 19th centuries.