10 Ways to Check Your Musical Bias - Nate Holder

• Provides a list of 10 approaches to questioning and examining possible implicit and explicit racial and cultural biases related to the selection and use of various types of music in K-12 educational settings.

Castle of Our Skins

• Born out of the desire to foster cultural curiosity, Castle of our Skins is a concert and educational series dedicated to celebrating Black artistry through music. From classrooms to concert halls, Castle of our Skins invites exploration into ​Black heritage and culture, spotlighting both unsung and celebrated ​figures of past and present.

Decolonizing the Music Room

• Decolonizing the Music Room is a nonprofit organization using research, training, and discourse to help music educators develop critical practices and center BBIA (Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Asian) voices, knowledge, and experiences in order to challenge the historical dominance of white Western European and American music, narratives, and practices. DTMR aims to disrupt the minimization and erasure of non-dominant cultures and identities in the field of music education to build a more equitable future through their work. Their website includes an extensive list of resources.

Hip-Hop Music Ed

• Founded in 2015, this site aims to serve as a clearinghouse for musicians, educators, and scholars interested in Hip-Hop and music education. We hope to share content and resources with all who are interested.

Music Explorers - Carnegie Hall

• Curriculum and downloadable concert videos, audio files, and student activities featuring diverse musical genres and cultural traditions.

Songs with a Questionable Past - Lauren McDougle

• Growing (Google Docs) list of songs traditionally/widely taught in K-12 with racist or derogatory terms or themes; those associated with Black minstrelsy; those with questionable origins, meaning, or authenticity; those with adult themes; and additional resources related to these works. Note: the Louisiana Tech University School of Music does not advocate for the ban of music appearing on this list, per se, but urges those who choose to perform it do so within a historically-informed, contextualized setting and to take advantage of the anti-discriminatory teaching opportunity that such a performance has the potential to afford.

Tracing the Origins of Blackface Minstrelsy in Children's Folk Music - Kennedi Johnson

• This project is an attempt to trace how certain songs that we have come to consider to be a part of the United States folk and children's music canon have roots within the tradition of blackface minstrelsy.

Undergraduate Music Curriculum Research Bibliography - Canadian University Music Society

• Bibliography of research related to diversity, equity, and inclusion pedagogy in colleges and universities in North America.

Embracing Radical Inclusivity - City University of New York

• Practical Steps for Creating an Intersectional, Interventionist Syllabus

...And We Were Heard Project - Christian Michael Folk

• Provides opportunity for diverse composers to have their wind band and orchestral literature performed and recorded; also provides databases of repertoire of diverse composers for wind and orchestral ensembles.

Beyond Elijah Rock: The Non-Idomatic Choral Music of Black Composers - Marques L.A. Garrett

• A list of non-idiomatic choral music of black composers; as it relates to black composers, non-ideomatic refers to the original concert music that is not part of the traditional idiomatic canon associated with black musicians. That canon includes spirituals, gospel, jazz, hip-hop, and rap among others. This list does not include arrangement of existing material, such as hymns of other folk songs; arranged by chorus personnel (SATB, SSA, TTB, Accompanied, etc.) and includes list of other resources.

Black Classical Music - The Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State University

• Information and links to resources about Black classical music composers

Center for Black Music Research - Columbia College Chicago

• The Center for Black Music Research (CBMR) holds collections highlighting the role of black music in world culture with materials originating or representing black music in the United States, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean in a variety of formats: personal papers, scores, sheet music, audio-visual materials, photographs, books, periodicals, and commercial recordings.

Composers Equity Project - Chamber Music America

• A list of composers who identify as women and gender non-conforming.

Composers of Color Resource Project

• Provides scores by composers of color, analytical notes and annotated scores, lesson materials, and anti-racist examples in music literature.

Electroacoustic Music by Black Composers

• Google Docs list of resources on Black composers of electronic and electro-acoustic music.

Institute for Composer Diversity - Fredonia State University of New York

• Provides databases of diverse composers, works by diverse composers, research resources, and an annual statistical analysis of professional orchestral seasons and their performance of music by diverse composers (or lack thereof).

Kassia Database: A Database of Art Song by Women Composers

• A resource geared toward aiding singers, instructors of voice, pianists, researchers, and music lovers to discover and celebrate art song by women composers. The database includes songs from the Baroque period through the 21st century, and have been categorized by level, voice type, language, composer, and composer dates. Related information includes range, tessitura, piano accompaniment, vocal line, and links to available scores. The analysis is intended for singers from beginning high school through the collegiate level and professional career. The database leads you to find the unique voices and expansive styles of each individual composer, with the hopes to increase performance and advocation of each woman's often overlooked works.

Latin Orchestral Music

• Seeks to provide a single, complete, and comprehensive online catalog that contains orchestral music from Latin America and the Caribbean, and to make it accessible to conductors, music directors, music administrators, librarians, students, teachers, researchers, and music lovers in general. This online catalog contains over 9,000 original orchestral works by over 1,600 composers from 24 countries and territories of Latin America and the Caribbean, and serves as a bridge between the music and the composers or publishers.

Many Many Women

• An index of over 1,000 composers, improvisers, and sonic artists

Music by Black Composers - Rachel Barton Pine Foundation

• Music by Black Composers was founded in 2001 to help rectify historic and ongoing racial injustices in the classical music sphere by inspiring Black students to begin and continue instrumental training, by making the music of Black composers available to everyone, and by helping to change the face of classical music through greater diversity. Their website provides access to sheet music and other resources.

Music of Asian America Resource Center

• The Music of Asian America Research Center (MAARC) strives to empower our communities through collecting, promoting, and teaching music created by Asian Americans. They seek to advance knowledge about and social justice for Asian Americans through music. Their website provides resources, information Asian American community music ensembles, podcasts, biographical essays, and a calendar of related events.

Resources for Diversity in Early Music Repertoire - Early Music America

• A list of resources compiled by members and friends of EMA and the EMA Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access Taskforce.

A Seat at the Piano

• Promoting inclusion in piano repertoire. A resource for pianists, pedagogues, and curious music appreciators to explore.

We Rise: A Movement Songbook - Poor People's Campaign

• We Rise: A Movement Songbook draws on a rich history of social movement music, both old and new. From Spirituals to Labor songs, from Freedom Songs of the Civil Rights Movement to the music rising up from our struggles today, this compilation of movement music is meant to give people ways to join. To remember. To affirm. To honor. To rage. To celebrate. To practice new ways of being in relationship with one another and the earth. To envision and create a world that is just and habitable for future generations.

American Musicological Society Study Groups

• Listing of Study Groups within the AMS, many of which focus on diverse music-makers and modes of music-making.

Black Music History Library

• This digital library was born out of a need to make resources about Black music history as comprehensive and accessible as possible. It contains well over one thousand entries (and counting) in the form of books, articles, documentaries, series, radio segments, and podcasts about the Black origins of popular and traditional music, dating from the 18th century to the present day. These materials range from informal to scholarly, meaning there is something in the library for everyone.

Inclusive Early Music

• A collection of resources related to diverse composers and music from the early modern period.

Society for Ethnomusicology Sections | Special Interest Groups

• Listings of Sections and Special Interest Groups (SIGs) within the SEM, many of which focus on diverse music-makers and modes of music-making.

Diversity in Music Theory - Society for Music Theory's Committee on Race and Ethnicity

• Extensive list of articles and other resources and materials for racial and ethnic diversity in music theory classrooms.

Engaged Music Theory - Engaged Music Theory Working Group

• Inspired by Naomi André’s vision of an “engaged musicology” (2018), the members of the Engaged Music Theory Working Group collectively assembled the following bibliography to encourage music scholars to engage directly with issues of cultural politics—race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, intersectionality, decolonization, and disability—in their research and teaching. We especially highlight scholarly work that confronts the centralized, historically Eurocentric and heteropatriarchal framing of North American music theory.

Inclusive Music Theory Pedagogy Resources - Music Theory Midwest

• Bibliography of inclusive music theory pedagogy resources/articles.

Music Theory Examples by Women

• A database of excerpts and complete musical compositions by women composers, categorized by theoretical concept for use in music education.

Music Theory's White Racial Frame - Phil Ewell

• Collection of blog posts by Phil Ewell on his landmark plenary talk at the Society for Music Theory's Annual Meeting in November 2019 and his article , "Music Theory and the White Racial Frame," which appeared in the Summer 2020 issue of Music Theory Online.

Society for Music Theory

Interest Groups

• Listing of Interest Groups within the SMT, many of which focus on the analysis of music by diverse music-makers and diverse modes of music-making.

Alliance for Women Film Composers

• AWFC is a community of composers and colleagues who strive to support and celebrate the work of women composers through advocacy and education. This visibility is important to herald in equality amongst our industry and bring diverse voices to film, television, video games and multimedia projects. They are proud to host the first ever directory of women film composers allowing filmmakers and decision makers the opportunity to discover new talent.

Black Classical Music Educators

• Black Classical Music Educators is an online space that makes it easy for both parents of young aspiring musicians, and adult students interested in sharpening their music skills, to easily secure private lessons with a Black classical music educator. It is also a community for Black classical music educators to find and professionally engage with each other. They offer private lessons in every instrument of the orchestra, as well as voice, piano, composition, music theory, and conducting.

ClassicalQueer

• ClassicalQueer provides a space for queer+ people working in the classical arts to tell their stories in their own words. It is an archive of instrumentalists, performers, administrators, composers, writers, and conductors from around the world who have a diverse and complex set of experiences working in the classical arts.

Composers Diversity Collective

• An organization of music creators who are achieving a workplace environment in the entertainment industry as diverse as our society.

Hearing in Color

• Hearing in Color is dedicated to exposing its community to underrepresented and diminished music, stories and composers. Hearing in Color concerts highlight the work of emerging artists who are often overlooked in the traditional canon, and gives artistic license to people of marginalized cultures to curate and produce that work. Hearing in Color believes in the power of music to build community, and to comfort, embolden and inspire in the face of subjugation and oppression.

International Alliance for Women in Music

• The International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) is an international membership organization of women and men dedicated to fostering and encouraging the activities of women in music, particularly in the areas of musical activity such as composing, performing, and research in which gender discrimination is an historic and ongoing concern. IAWM members engage in efforts to increase the programming of music by female composers, to combat discrimination against female musicians, including as symphony orchestra members, and to include accounts of the contributions of women musicians in university music curricula and textbooks.

International Women's Brass Conference

• IWBC’s mission is to educate, develop, support, and promote women brass musicians while inspiring continued excellence and opportunities in the broader musical world. Membership is open to all women and men who would like to support this effort.

National Association of Negro Musicians

• For almost a century, the National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc. has been a champion for African and African-American music and musicians. This organization is concerned with the performance and preservation of uniquely African-American music, while acknowledging and providing opportunity to the Black composer and performer. Their membership ranges the full spectrum of interest in music: performers, educators, students, administrators, and enthusiasts.

She is the Music

• SITM is a nonprofit organization increasing the number of women working in music – songwriters, engineers, producers, artists and industry professionals. They are an independent, global network that operates as a unifying organization for women from across the industry, creating strength and impact on a global scale. As an umbrella nonprofit, they also provide resources and support for female-focused initiatives that are working to create meaningful change – both through their own programs, as well as external efforts around the world. Programs include an all-female songwriting series, industry database of women creators and mentorship program, with more to come. Their initiatives serve women in the industry today while fostering the development of future generations. A first-of-its-kind collaboration spanning the music industry, SITM is powered by creators, publishers, record labels, talent agencies, industry groups, media companies, streaming services, and more. They also profile women professionals on their website to promote visibility and provide networking and professional opportunities.

Sphinx

• The Sphinx Organization is the social justice organization dedicated to transforming lives through the power of diversity in the arts. Sphinx’s four program areas – Education & Access, Artist Development, Performing Artists, and Arts Leadership – form a pipeline that develops and supports diversity and inclusion in classical music at every level: music education, artists performing on stage, the repertoire and programing being performed, the communities represented in audiences, and the artistic and administrative leadership within the field.

Women's Audio Mission

• Women’s Audio Mission is a San Francisco/Oakland-based nonprofit organization that uses music and media and an incredible “carrot” of a training environment – the only professional recording studio in the world built and run by women/GNC individuals – to attract over 2,000 underserved women/girls/GNC individuals every year to STEM and creative technology studies that inspire them to amplify their voices and become the innovators of tomorrow. WAM’s award-winning curriculum weaves art and music with science, technology and computer programming and works to close the critical gender gap in creative technology careers.

Women in Jazz Organization

• Women In Jazz Organization is a collective of over 500 professional performing Jazz Musicians who identify as Women or gender Non-Binary. Largely a New York City-based organization, with connections to other individuals and groups nationally and internationally. Their website provides a calendar of events and resources for support and mentorship.