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Teaching Freedom Song as Antiracist Praxis

Stacks, Stephen

Journal of the Society for American Music, 2021-11, Vol.15 (4), p.461-465 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Título:
Teaching Freedom Song as Antiracist Praxis
Autor: Stacks, Stephen
Assuntos: Activism ; Black nationalism ; Civil rights ; Civil rights movements ; Colloquy: Antiracism and the Undergraduate Music Curriculum ; Essay ; Historians ; Historiography ; Music ; Nonviolence ; Political campaigns ; Teaching ; Violence ; White supremacy
É parte de: Journal of the Society for American Music, 2021-11, Vol.15 (4), p.461-465
Descrição: In the teaching of history, oversimplification is, perhaps, unavoidable. In certain cases, however, that oversimplification can be deadly. There are some lessons that are too complex, some stories that are too nuanced, to be reduced in such a way. By their contours and particularities, they resist easy digestion. In the spirit of this particularity, my contribution to the colloquy is specific, but hopefully applicable to contexts beyond its specificity: I argue that the US Black Freedom Movement (or civil rights movement) and its music is a story that must be taught in all its complexity, for oversimplifying it does concrete harm to the ongoing struggle against white supremacy in the present. Teaching the US Black Freedom Movement and its music is also vital if we hope to enable our students to be forces of understanding, healing, and justice in the world, and should be an integral component of any undergraduate music curriculum that hopes to be antiracist.
Editor: New York, USA: Cambridge University Press
Idioma: Inglês

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