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If Colors Could Be Heard: Narratives about Racial Identity in Music Education

If Colors Could Be Heard: Narratives about Racial Identity in Music Education

Cayari, Christopher
Rajan, Rekha S.
Thompson, Jason D.

Hardcover

Series: Contemporary Music Making and Learning

General EducationMusic Instruction: GeneralTeaching Instruction

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ISBN10: 1835951678
ISBN13: 9781835951675
Publisher: Intellect (UK)
Published: Oct 28 2025
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.90 Width: 7.08 Depth: 9.66
Language: English
A deeply personal and scholarly exploration of how race and ethnicity shape the ways we learn, teach, and experience music.

If Colors Could Be Heard: Narratives About Racial Identity in Music Education is a groundbreaking collection of firsthand accounts by music educators, artists, activists, and students from the Global Majority. These deeply personal narratives explore how race and ethnicity shape experiences in music learning, making, and teaching.

From stories of childhood discovery to reflections on navigating racial identity in the classroom, these voices paint a complex and vivid portrait of music education in the United States. Going beyond a collection of research studies, this book embraces self-reflective storytelling as a legitimate and essential method of inquiry, offering a scholarly mosaic of lived experience.

By centering voices often marginalized in academia, If Colors Could Be Heard challenges dominant narratives and reimagines music education through a lens of equity, identity, and belonging. A must-read for students, educators, and researchers committed to fostering an inclusive and just musical future.

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