EDI Discussion Group

The EDI Discussion Group meets regularly through the academic year to consider relevant themes, texts and media as basis for reflection on our own structures and practices.

Beginning life in 2020 as the Decolonisation Reading Group, and subsequently expanded to embrace wider EDI-related themes, we welcome all staff and students to attend and to contribute resources.

The group currently aligns its discussions with themes from the national calendar, including Black History Month, UK Disability Month, LGBT+ History Month, and International Women's Day.

Recent materials discussed in the group include:

• Bradley, Deborah. 2012. “Good for What, Good for Whom?: Decolonizing Music Education Philosophies". In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education, edited by Wayne Bowman and Ana Lucía Frega, 408–433. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Bull, Anna. 2016. "El Sistema as a Bourgeois Social Project: Class, Gender, and Victorian Values," Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education 15(1): 120-53.
•  The Classical Music Pod. 2022. “Nate Holder on Decolonising the Music Curriculum” (podcast), SE4 EP10: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/nate-holder-on-decolonising-the-music-curriculum/id1449602249?i=1000563973385
• DeLorenzo, Lisa C. 2015. “Is there a Color Line in Music Education?” In Giving Voice to Democracy in Music Education: Diversity and Social Justice in the Classroom, edited by Lisa C. DeLorenzo, 176–196. New York: Routledge.
•  Froneman, Willemien and Stephanus Muller. 2020. “Music’s ‘Non-Political Neutrality’: When Race Dare Not Speak its Name.” In Fault Lines: A Primer on Race, Science and Society, edited by Jonathan Jansen and Cyrill Walters, 203–218. Stellenbosch: African Sun Media.
• Hess, Juliet. 2015. "Decolonizing Music Education: Moving beyond Tokenism," International Journal of Music Education 33(3): 336–47.
• Hisama, Ellie M. 2021. “Getting to Count,” Music Theory Spectrum 43(2): 349–63.
• Howe, Blake, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Neil Lerner and Joseph Straus. 2016. “Introduction: Disability Studies in Music, Music in Disability Studies.” In The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies, edited by Blake Howe, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Neil Lerner, Joseph Straus, 1–11. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Lee, Gavin S. K., Philip Ewell, and Robert Hatten. 2023. “Queer and Critical Race Theory.” In Queer Ear: Remaking Music Theory, edited by Gavin S. K. Lee, 31–42. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Luong, Vivian and Taylor Myers. 2021. “Reframing Musical Genius: Toward a Queer, Intersectional Approach,” Theory and Practice 46: 83–96.
• Murphy, R. Taggart. 2024. “The Real Threat to Classical Music” (magazine article): https://compactmag.com/article/the-real-threat-to-classical-music?fbclid=IwAR3zUguCAlpUt6hTygnLXBSP2iK78zH_oLjkshlHGPlwMpLPXMdr9YfVtCI.