The Black Power Classroom: An Ethnomusicological Approach to Teaching African Heritage Awareness Through Music Education in Botswana and African America

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dc.contributor.advisorWitzleben, John Len_US
dc.contributor.authorCunningham, Mayaen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMusicen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-02T05:30:33Z
dc.date.available2019-10-02T05:30:33Z
dc.date.issued2019en_US
dc.description.abstractThe Black Power Classroom uses ethnomusicology to understand how culturally responsive music education is used to teach African American and Botswanan children their African heritage. I first interrogate the coloniality of minstrelsy and the distortion of Black America’s African heritage that warrants the need for African heritage to be taught to Black American children. I then overview the historical/contemporary agendas for Black education, and how music education fits into these agendas, by comparing those of African Americans to those of the “The State,” which operates as a colonial actor. I then analyze the use of culturally responsive instruction in a music program for African American fourth graders in Washington DC, drawing from Gaunt’s theory of kinetic orality. Finally, an analysis of how traditional music is used to teach cultural identity in Botswana elucidates the key components of a culturally responsive music education model that could be effective for African American students.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/v4vd-tufc
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/25167
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMusicen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMusic educationen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledSocial researchen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledActivist Music Educationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAfrican American Studiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledApplied Ethnomusicologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCultural Activismen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledEthnomusicologyen_US
dc.titleThe Black Power Classroom: An Ethnomusicological Approach to Teaching African Heritage Awareness Through Music Education in Botswana and African Americaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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