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A YouTube playlist highlighting diverse performers of western European art…

  • Geographic Area: Europe
  • Audience: undergrad + grad
  • Century: multiple centuries

Our textbook, The Oxford History of Western Music, provides a…

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: undergrad, major
  • Century: multiple centuries

“By the end of the seventeenth century, black trumpeters and…

  • Geographic Area: Europe
  • Audience: grad
  • Century: 1600-1699 (17thC)

Open source article: “My intention here is to explore some…

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: undergrad + grad
  • Century: multiple centuries

“We bring you over 1000 years of Black history in…

  • Geographic Area: Europe
  • Audience: any undergrad
  • Century: multiple centuries

“The idea of a global music history may be traced…

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: undergrad + grad

2019 blog post about cultural appropriation in Caroline Shaw’s Partita…

  • Geographic Area: North America
  • Audience: general
  • Century: 2000- (21stC)

“In recent years, considerable scholarly attention has been paid to…

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: general
  • Century: multiple centuries

Resources Page: Chapter summaries, bibliography, and resources (linked websites, video,…

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: for instructor use
  • Century: 1600-1699 (17thC)

“How do marginalized communities across the globe use the medieval…

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: undergrad + grad
  • Century: multiple centuries

“Half-hour documentary on black entertainer Sam Lucas, written by Sandra…

  • Geographic Area: North America
  • Audience: general
  • Century: 1900-1999 (20thC)

Syllabus for Music History I: Global Overview The emergence of…

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: undergrad, major
  • Century: multiple centuries

An open-source music appreciation textbook organized thematically by uses of…

A bibliography challenging the Eurocentric canon of music theory through…

  • Geographic Area: North America

An open-access digital anthology comprising alternative press publications sourced from…

  • Century: 1900-1999 (20thC)

Bibliography and assignments for introducing “students to musical voices and…

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: undergrad + grad

This site contains musical excerpts by and biographies of women…

  • Audience: undergrad, major

A digital library/bibliography of resources about Black Music History from…

  • Geographic Area: multiple regions
  • Audience: general