Recommended Readings

from the renegade team:

  1. Black Opera by Naomi André (University of Illinois Press, 2018)

  2. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House, 2020)

  3. Contextualizing the Repertoire, Julia Bullock interviewed by Arya Roshanian (2021, BOMB Magazine)

recommended listening/watching:

  1. They Still Want to Kill Us, aria about the 1921 Tulsa Massacre composed by Daniel Bernard Roumain and performed by J’Nai Bridges (2021)

From “programming responsibly” with bethany battafarano:

  1. Changing Cultural Paradigms in Choral Programming by Ciara Anwen Cheli, 2020 (Thesis, Wellesley College)

  2. Blackface Minstrel Songs Don't Belong In Music Class by Dr. Katya Ermolaeva, 2019 (Article)

  3. A Candid Conversation on Race, Equity, and Representation in the Choral Arts between Derrick Fox, Phillip Schoultz and Tesfa Wondemagegnehu, 2020 (Video, Music Lives Here: Minnesota Roundtable)

  4. Indigenous Land Acknowledgment from Native Governance Center (Guide)

  5. Diversifying Programming with Integrity by Shruthi Rajasekar, 2020 (Article)

  6. Cross-cultural Engagement in Choral Music for Social Justice by Mollie Spector Stone, 2018 (Article)

From “Mixed Race Stories in Classical Music” with Danielle Jagelski:

  1. Native Classical: Musical Modernities, Indigenous Research Methodologies, and a Kanienkéha (Mohawk) Concept of Non:wa (now) by Dawn Avery (University of Maryland, 2014)

  2. Rodrigo's Reconsideration: Intersectionality and the Future of Critical Race Theory by Richard Delgado (Iowa Law Review, 2011)

  3. Experiencing Race as a Music Therapist: Personal Narratives by Susan Hadley (Barcelona Publishers, 2013)

  4. Other: Mixed Race in America, podcast miniseries hosted by Alex Laughlin (Washington Post, 2018)

  5. The New Race Question: How the Census Counts Multiracial Individuals by Joel Perlmann and Mary C. Waters (Russel Sage Foundation, 2002)

  6. Mixed Race Students in College: The Ecology of Race, Identity, and Community on Campus by Kristen A. Renn (SUNY Press, 2004)

  7. The Skin That We Sing: Culturally Responsive Choral Music Education by Julia Shaw (Music Educators Journal, 2012)

  8. Standing on Both Feet: Voices of Older Mixed-Race Americans by Cathy J. Tashiro (Routledge, 2013)

  9. New Ethnicities and Old Classities: Respectability and Diaspora by Katharine Tyler (Social Identities, 2011)

  10. From the 1970s to the 1790s and the Importance of Metanarratives by Hazel Waters (Race and Class, 2016)

from “Racial stereotypes in opera” with Kristen Buabin:

  1. Blackness in Opera by Naomi André, Karen M. Bryan, and Eric Saylor (University of Illinois Press, 2014)

  2. Opera Can No Longer Ignore Its Race Problem by Joshua Barone (NY Times, 2020)

  3. Turandot: Time to call it quits on Orientalist Opera? by Rob Buscher (Opera Philadelphia, 2016)

  4. The Ambiguity in Turandot: An Orientalist Perspective by Hong Yu (Nanjing University, 2018)