PART I: Critiquing the Critique 1 Initiation 2 Music of the Common Tongue 3 From Multicultural Slumber to Transcultural Awakening 4 The Whitewashing of Musicking: More Than a Small Thing 5 Philosophical Malpractice 6 Lifting the Veil on Linguistic Racism 7 The Word Jazz 8 From Deficit to Evolutionary Narratives 9 The Structure of Musical Racism: Anatomy of a Third Pandemic. PART II: Elevating Change Leadership 10 Dismantling Activist Homogeneity 11 Juxtapositional Activism 12 K-12 Music Teacher Education as Ground Zero 13 Epitaph for a Core Curriculum That Never Was 14 White Music Matters 15 Musicology Next: Improvisation, Sound, Soul, Cosmos.
Edward Sarath is Professor of Music at the University of Michigan, USA, and Founder and Co-Director of the University of Michigan Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies. He was Founding Chair of the University of Michigan Department of Jazz and Contemporary Music Studies.