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HARP-535 |
| Title: |
Addressing Bias in Music: a Canadian case study |
| Source: |
Music Education Research; Sep2000, Vol. 2 Issue 2, p111, 15p |
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| Year: |
2000 |
| Pages: |
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| Author(s): |
Charlene Morton |
| Keywords: |
anti-discrimination, Canada, culture, discrimination, economic, social, and cultural rights, gender equality, human rights, multi-culturalism, non-discrimination, racial discrimination, racism, ethnic minorities, civil and political rights, education |
| Abstract: |
In their case studies of bias in the arts, Tator, Henry and Mattis [Challenging Racism in the Arts: Case Studies of Conflict and Confrontation, University of Toronto (1997)] examine problems associated with racist cultural productions, such as the staging of the musical Show Boat for the 1993 inauguration of the Ford Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto. They explain that it is the ‘everyday, unconscious familiarity with racist representations [that] makes it difficult for White people to identify the more subtle manifestations of racism that are embedded in many cultural productions’ (p. 180). In this paper, I present a Canadian case study of Anne of Green Gables – The Musical to illustrates how everyday, unconscious familiarity with misrepresentations in music makes it difficult for music educators to identify the more subtle manifestations of ethnic, gender and class bias in school repertoire. The purpose of this study is to move music educators into a broader discussion of multicultural education that does not simply focus on the integration and study of new repertoire but also reconsiders the appropriateness of standard repertoire and practice. My overall aim is to help link more effectively the goals of music education with those of multicultural education and, similarly, citizenship and human rights education, which prescribe the promotion of ‘equal participation of all individuals and groups in society as well as a commitment to participate on that basis and to confront any manifestations of privilege and inequality’ (Sears & Hughes, 1996, p. 128). |
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Keywords: anti-discrimination, Canada, civil and political rights, cultural rights, culture, discrimination, economic, education, ethnic minorities, gender equality, human rights, multi-culturalism, non-discrimination, racial discrimination/racism, social
