Appel de conférences pour le colloque « Early Black Music. Scholarship Meets Pedagogy », George Mason University, 20-21 juin 2024.

« What is known of the musical practices of Early Black North Americans (from first arrival, including the Caribbean, through pre-Civil War United States), and how can musicologists and music educators collaborate to translate that knowledge into a variety of classrooms and scholarship? A variety of musical histories have recently been described for mostly academic audiences, from, for instance, the extensive practices of banjo playing and making across the Atlantic to the variety of documented song, dance, and theatrical music of enslaved and free people of the Caribbean. These and other bodies of scholarship are growing beyond the pace that they can be included in or translated for broader music education—at the K-12 or college levels. But their material and findings force a necessary retelling of several arenas of music history and has the power to support the curricular decolonizing in which many schools at many levels are engaged.

In order to help in this translation process, we invite scholars and teachers of musicology and history; K-12 music educators; performers; graduate students in any of these areas; and any other relevant professionals to join in 2 days of conference presentations and workshops. Please send 300 words describing what you would contribute to such a gathering: a presentation of scholarly work; a presentation of well-rehearsed teaching materials; a historical document and a series of directed discussion questions; etc. If you had 40 minutes in front of a group of experts on early Black music, what would you want to show them, elicit from them, learn from them, or build with them—as an expert or budding expert yourself, in scholarship, pedagogy, or performance? »

Date limite de soumission : 8 mars 2024.

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