Teaching Difficult Topics

Reflections from the Undergraduate Music Classroom

Olivia R. Lucas, Laura Moore Pruett, Olivia R. Lucas , Laura Moore Pruett

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The University of Michigan Press
14 October 2024

Techniques of music & music tutorials; Inclusive education & mainstreaming; Universities; Teaching of a specific subject

Series: Music and Social Justice

Teaching Difficult Topics provides a series of on-the-ground reflections from college music instructors working in a wide variety of institutional settings about their approaches to inclusive, supportive pedagogy in the music classroom. Although some imagine the music classroom to be an apolitical space, instructors find themselves increasingly in need of resources for incorporating issues of race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and historical trauma into their classrooms in ways that support student learning and safeguard their classroom communities.

The teaching reflections in Teaching Difficult Topics examine difficult themes that fall into three primary categories: subjects that instructors sense to be controversial or emotionally challenging to discuss, those that derive from or intersect with real-world events that are difficult to process, and bigger-picture discussions of how music studies often focuses on dominant narratives while overlooking other perspectives. Some chapters offer practical guidance, lesson plans, and teaching materials to enable instructors to build discussions of race, gender, sexuality, and traumatic histories into their own classrooms; others take a more global view, reflecting on the importance and relevance of teaching these difficult topics and on how to respond in the music classroom when external events disrupt daily life.

By: Olivia R. Lucas, Laura Moore Pruett
Edited by: Olivia R. Lucas, Laura Moore Pruett
Imprint: The University of Michigan Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9780472056965
ISBN 10: 0472056964
Series: Music and Social Justice
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 14 October 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Olivia R. Lucas is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Louisiana State University. Laura Moore Pruett is an Associate Professor of Music at Merrimack College.

Reviews for Teaching Difficult Topics: Reflections from the Undergraduate Music Classroom

"""Teaching Difficult Topics reinvigorates the notion of teaching music within context rather than outside of it: not just the context of the music and its creators/performers, but the context of the students and instructors studying it. As a whole, it presents diverse approaches to the topic, from individual case studies of specific courses, to teaching methods for specific works or topics, to personal discussions of how instructors dealt with world events that impacted their students and themselves.""--Eric Hung, Music of Asian America Research Center ""Teaching Difficult Topics is a valuable collection of essays that is particularly strong in addressing difficult topics that deal with race and ethnicity. It provides a range of case studies from across music disciplines to inspire instructors to engage with, rather than avoid, difficult conversations with music students in and out of the classroom.""--Robin Attas, University of Manitoba"