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Newsletter (May 13, 2021)

The MayDay Group is pleased to share that the schedule and registration information for QMUE 4/MDG 32 Symposia 2021: Creating and Sustaining Equitable Diverse, and Inclusive Music Learning Practices is now available. The virtual conference will take place June 29-July 1, 2021. We hope to see you there!

This edition of the newsletter includes calls for proposals for the Western University Graduate Symposium on Music, and Future(s) of Performance: The Responsibilities of Performing Arts in Tertiary Education; as well as information on the World Music Pedagogy Webinar and several job vacancies.

Announcements
  • MayDay Group Colloquium – schedule and registration now available
  • World Music Pedagogy Webinar Course
Conferences & Calls
  • Western University Graduate Symposium on Music
  • Future(s) of Performance: The Responsibilities of Performing Arts in Tertiary Education – Karen Schupp, Editor
Job Announcements
  • Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) – Choral/Music: Viterbo University
  • Distinguished Scholar in Guitar/Music Industry (Assistant Professor of Music): Georgia Southern University
  • Assistant Professor – Music Education: Southeast Missouri State University
  • Visiting Lecturer in Music Education: University of Washington
  • Assistant Professor – Music Education/Choral: Indiana University Southeast
  • Adjunct Faculty – Music Education: Winston-Salem State University
  • Artist Lecturer in Music Education: Carnegie Mellon University

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Newsletter (April 20, 2021)

The MayDay Group is pleased to share a very full newsletter with you this week. There are announcements for several events including the Sound, Meaning, Education: Conversations conference, the Berklee Institute for Arts Education and Special Needs Digital Learning Series, National Association for Music Education (NAfME) Eastern conference, Mountain Lake Colloquium, and the 1st Queer Forum of the LGBTQ+ Music Study Group.
We are also pleased to share a book announcement for Rethinking Social Action Through Music: The Search for Coexistence and Citizenship in Medellín’s Music by Geoff Baker. Congratulations!
Below, you can find information on these, as well as calls for papers for the Ontario Music Educators’ Association (OMEA) conference, the International Society for Music Education (ISME) World Conference, Cultural Diversity in Music Education (CDIME), and the 6th Student Research Symposium at the International Centre for Community Music (ICCM). Additionally, there is a call for a special issue of the Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis and several job advertisements.
Announcements
  • Sound, Meaning, Education: Conversations Conference
  • Book Announcement: Rethinking Social Action Through Music: The Search for Coexistence and Citizenship in Medellín’s Music Schools by Geoff Baker
  • Berklee Institute for Arts Education and Special Needs: 2021-2022 Digital Learning Series
  • National Association for Music Education (NAfME) Eastern Division Conference – Registration Open
  • Mountain Lake Colloquium – Registration Open
  • 1st Queer Forum of the LGBTQ+ Music Study Group – Invitation to Participate
Conferences & Calls
  • Ontario Music Educators’ Association (OMEA) Conference – Extended Deadline
  • International Society for Music Education (ISME) World Conference
  • Resilience: Histories, Theories, & Trajectories – Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis
  • 6th Student Research Symposium – International Centre for Community Music (ICCM)
  • Cultural Diversity in Music Education (CDIME) Conference
Job Announcements
  • Assistant/Associate Professor of Choral Music Education – George Mason University
  • Assistant Professor/Term Lecturer of Percussion and Music Theory – Northwest Missouri State University
  • Associate Director – Cali School of Music, Montclair University
  • Associate Director of Athletic Bands – University of Utah, Salt Lake City
  • Assistant Professor in Music Education (Choral) – University of Central Arkansas
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Newsletter (March 30, 2021)

In this edition of the newsletter, we are pleased to share announcements for the Disability Studies & Music Education Symposium, the World Music Pedagogy Courses, and the Mountain Lake Colloquium; as well as a book announcement for The Politics of Diversity in Music Education, edited by Alexis Anja Kallio, Heidi Westerlund, Sidsel Karlsen, Kathryn Marsh, & Eva Sæther. Congratulations!

For those wishing to submit to the Maryland Music Educators Association virtual conference (2021) or the Michigan Music Conference (2022), the calls can be found below. There is also a call for the SOCAN Foundation / MusCan Awards for Writings on Canadian Music. Finally, there are several position vacancies for those on the job hunt.

Announcements
  • Registration Now Open – Disability Studies & Music Education Symposium
  • Book Announcement – The Politics of Diversity in Music Education, edited by Alexis Anja Kallio, Heidi Westerlund, Sidsel Karlsen, Kathryn Marsh, & Eva Sæther
  • World Music Pedagogy Course Offerings
  • Registration Now Open – Mountain Lake Colloquium
Conferences & Calls
  • Maryland Music Educators Association – 2021 July Virtual Conference
  • SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Awards for Writings on Canadian Music – Canadian University Music Society (MusCan)
  • 2022 Michigan Music Conference
Job Announcements
  • Pennsylvania State University – Appointments in Music Education (2)
  • University of North Carolina Greensboro – Visiting Assistant Professor in Music Education
  • University of South Florida – Assistant Director of Bands
  • University of Alabama – Director of Choral Activities

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Newsletter (March 15, 2021)

The MayDay Group is pleased to announce that Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education issue 20(1) is now available at http://act.maydaygroup.org/current-issue/. This issue of ACT features articles by William Coppola, Cara Bernard and Matthew Rotjan, Hayley Janes, and Andrea VanDeusen, who address topics ranging from the work of Paulo Freire alongside interrogations of social media and conference discourses, the concept of cultural humility, and Whiteness in preservice music education. Deborah Bradley, Co-editor, provides the editorial, which explores a hidden common thread within the articles.
The MayDay Group is also delighted to share a book announcement for The Routledge Handbook to Sociology of Music Education, edited by Ruth Wright, Geir Johansen, Panagiotis A. Kanellopoulos, and Patrick Schmidt. Congratulations! There are also announcements and calls for the International Society for Music Education (ISME), South Carolina Music Educators Association, and Disruption to discovery: Music teacher educators’ stories of pandemic teaching and visionary futures.
Announcements
  • Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education 20(1) – Now Online!
  • Book Announcement – The Routledge Handbook to Sociology of Music Education
  • International Society for Music Education (ISME)
Conferences & Calls
  • South Carolina Music Educators Association Day of Research in Music Education
  • Disruption to discovery: Music teacher educators’ stories of pandemic teaching and visionary futures
Job Announcements
  • Assistant Director of Bands – University of South Carolina
  • Executive Director – F. Ludwig Diehn School of Music, Old Dominion University
  • Assistant or Associate Professor of Choral Music Education – Northwest Missouri State University
  • Hampton and Esther Boswell Distinguished University Professor of Music Education – DePauw University
  • Department Chair, Music – University of Massachusetts Lowell

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Announcement (New Issue of ACT)

Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education issue 20(1) is now available at http://act.maydaygroup.org/current-issue/
This issue of ACT features articles by William Coppola, Cara Bernard and Matthew Rotjan, Hayley Janes, and Andrea VanDeusen, who address topics ranging from the work of Paolo Freire alongside interrogations of social media and conference discourses, the concept of cultural humility, and Whiteness in preservice music education. Deborah Bradley, Co-editor, provides the editorial, which explores a hidden common thread within the articles.
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Newsletter (February 22, 2021)

The MayDay Group is pleased to share an announcement that the MayDay Group Colloquium 32 (MDG32) / 4th Symposium for LGBTQ Studies and Music Education (QMUE4) will be held online June 29-July 1, 2021. We hope to see you there!
We are also happy to share a book announcement for Music in the Lives of Young Children: An Annotated Anthology of Research Papers from Early Child Development and Care, edited by Warren Brodsky and Wilfried Gruhn. Congratulations!
In this edition of the newsletter, you can also find information on the Queer Mutual Mentoring Pilot Scheme of the LGBTQ+ Music Study Group; and calls for the Music Educators Journal and Teaching Music Online in Higher Education. For those planning to attend the International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education (ISSME), the virtual conference dates have been extended to June 21-24, 2021.
Announcements
  • MayDay Group Colloquium 32 (MDG32) / 4th Symposium for LGBTQ Studies and Music Education (QMUE4) – Now Online!
  • Book Announcement – Music in the Lives of Young Children: An Annotated Anthology of Research Papers from Early Child Development and Care, edited by Warren Brodsky and Wilfried Gruhn
  • Queer Mutual Mentoring Pilot Scheme of the LGBTQ+ Music Study Group
  • International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education Extends Conference Dates
  • Disruption. Action. Change: Creating a More Just and Equitable Arts Ecosystem – Online Series
Conferences & Calls
  • Music Educators Journal
  • Teaching Music Online in Higher Education
Job Announcements
  • Assistant Professor of Elementary and Early Childhood Music Education – University of Hartford Hartt School
  • Professor of Music (Music Education/Choral Music) – Whitworth University
  • Visiting Director of Choral Activities – University of Memphis
  • Coordinator of Music Education/Assistant of Associate Professor of Music – Jackson State University
  • Assistant/Associate Professor of Music and Human Learning – University of Texas in Austin
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Newsletter (February 9, 2020)

In this newsletter, the MayDay Group shares announcements from the International Society for the Sociology of Music Education (ISSME) and the International Society for Music Education (ISME); as well as a book announcement for My Body Was Left on the Street: Music Education and Displacement, edited by Kính T. Vũ and André de Quadros. Congratulations!
 
Below, there is also information on the ABLE Assembly and the Music, Sound, and Trauma Conference; as well as several position vacancies.
 
Announcements
  • International Society for the Sociology of Music Education (ISSME) – Updates and Reminders
  • Book Announcement – My Body Was Left on the Street: Music Education and Displacement, edited by Kính T. Vũ and André de Quadros
  • International Society for Music Education (ISME)
 
Conferences & Calls
  • ABLE Assembly
  • Music, Sound, and Trauma Conference
 
Job Announcements
  • Assistant Professor of Music Education – Columbus State University
  • Director of Bands/Instruments, Music Education – Southeast Missouri State University
  • Assistant Visiting Professor of Choir, Music Education and Social Justice – Portland State University School of Music and Theatre
  • Assistant/Associate Dean for Access and Equity, College of Arts and Architecture – The Pennsylvania State University
  • Assistant or Associate Professor of Music and Human Learning – University of Texas at Austin
  • Director of Bands – University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

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Newsletter (January 27, 2021)

The MayDay Group is pleased to share a book announcement for Music & Social Justice: A Guide for Elementary Educators by MDG member Cathy Benedict. Congratulations!
A reminder about the call for papers for a special issue on Anti-Racism, Anti-Fascism, and Anti-Discrimination in and through Music Education in the MDG journal, Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, guest edited by Nasim Niknafs. The deadline has been extended to March 1, 2021.
In this newsletter, there is also an announcement for Shared Perspectives – Live Talks Featuring Conductors, Composers, and Vocal Choral Specialists and a call for papers for the Music and Wellbeing Conference. Additionally, there are several position vacancies.
Announcements
  • Book Announcement: Music & Social Justice: A Guide for Elementary Educators by Cathy Benedict
  • Shared Perspectives – Live Talks Featuring Conductors, Composers, and Vocal Choral Specialists
Conferences & Calls
  • Special issue on Anti-Racism in Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, edited by Nasim Niknafs – Deadline Extended!
  • Music and Wellbeing Conference
Job Announcements
  • Director of Choral Activities/Assistant Professor of Music – The College of St. Scholastica
  • Assistant/Associate Professor, Music Education – Westminster Choir College, Westminster College of the Arts of Rider University
  • Assistant Professor of Music Education – Portland State University

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Special Issue on Anti-Racism, Anti-Fascism, and Anti-Discrimination in and through Music Education Deadline Extended!

Special Issue on Anti-Racism, Anti-Fascism, and Anti-Discrimination in and through Music Education Deadline Extended!
Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education Guest Editor: Nasim Niknafs
The violence of racial and ethnic discrimination has taken new forms throughout the world, rendering different peoples in different places as “a genus of subaltern humanity,” disposable and surplus (Mbebe 2019, 178, emphasis original). In North America, evidence of this subaltern humanity arises in the killings of Black people in the U.S. by police and local vigilantes, and the deaths of Indigenous peoples at the hands of the police in Canada, compounded by the staggering number of unsolved cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada. Beyond North America, Hindu nationalism policies in India have resulted in the ostracizing of Muslims. In the UK, the Windrush Generation (the children of immigrants from Commonwealth Caribbean countries who arrived in Britain between 1948 and 1971) have been wrongfully detained and deported. In Iran, systemic racism has denied Afghan refugees access to education and basic needs. World-wide, Covid-19 is disproportionately affecting historically marginalized groups. These represent but a few examples of the malignant effects of racism globally that exacerbate such contemporary global issues as terrorism, the climate crisis, and dehumanizing migratory policies (Dwyer & Bressey, 2008). Racism may easily escape critical scrutiny as a systemic problematic because it is often misidentified as an “archaic, minimal personal pathology” rather than “a private commodity whose ‘circulation’ is de-regulated” (Garner, 2016, p. 166). An increasing number of writers and scholars have pointed to this shift of discourse in racism and its influence on educational practices. They caution against the dangers of implicit racial indoctrinations, color-blindness, tolerance, privileged and polite activism, and political correctness that circumvent engaging with the very real, excruciating, and material complexities of racial injustices and discriminatory practices (e.g. Bradley 2007, 2015, Fleras, 2014, Hess, 2018). Some scholars in music education contend that music teaching and learning at all levels of education from early childhood to higher education tacitly uphold white supremacy, oppressive ideologies, and fascistic forms of community (Koza, 2008; Bradley, 2009, 2017).
In the wake of the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and others by police and vigilantes in the U.S. in 2020, anti-racist, anti-fascist, and anti-discriminatory movements in arts education and education departments have begun to emerge (e.g., MayDay Group’s Statement of Solidarity and Commitment to Anti-Racism, Open Letter on Antiracist Actions Within SMT, and #ThisIsArtSchool). This special issue of ACT invites manuscripts from all geographies and cultural backgrounds to scrutinize and critique racism, fascism, and discriminatory practices in relation to music education at all levels. Possible themes may include but are not limited to:
  • personal stories, autobiographies, and testimonies interpreted through critical race theory, critical theory and pedagogy, culturally relevant pedagogy, multi- or inter-culturalism, and/or other perspectives,
  • actionable theories of antiracism, anti-fascism, and anti-discrimination in and through music education,
  • anti-racist and anti-discriminatory research practices in music education,
  • antiracist public policies and music education,
  • moral and ethical grounds and the imperatives for music education and music educators in relation to racial injustices,
  • online and offline antiracism, anti-fascism, and anti-discrimination activism in music education and,
  • curricular changes demanding an overhaul of hegemonic music education practices.
The submission deadline is March 1, 2021. For submission information, please click here.
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Newsletter (Janurary 7, 2021)

Welcome to 2021, and to the first MDG Newsletter of the year!
 
A reminder about the call for papers for a special issue on Anti-Racism, Anti-Fascism, and Anti-Discrimination in and through Music Education in the MDG journal, Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, guest edited by Nasim Niknafs.
 
The MayDay Group is delighted to share news of several book announcements: Education, Music, and the Lives of Undergraduates: Collegiate A Cappella and the Pursuit of Happiness by Roger Mantie and Brent C. Talbot; Difference and Division in Music Education, edited by Alexis Anja Kallio; and Popular Music Pedagogies: A Practical Guide for Music Teachers by Matthew Clauhs, Bryan Powell, and Ann C. Clements. Congratulations, all!
 
There are also announcements from the International Society for Music Education (ISME), Bergen Summer School, and Mountain Lake Symposium.
 
The MayDay Group is pleased to announce calls for Congress 2021 / Canadian University Music Annual Conference and the Minnesota Society for Music Teacher Education (deadline today!), as well as extended deadlines for the International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education (ISSME) and a special issue on Women in Popular Music in the Journal of Popular Music Education.
 
Additionally, there are calls for nominations for the International Association for the Study of Popular Music-Canada (IASPM) Book Prize and American Educational Research Association (AERA) Outstanding Early Career Paper in Music Education, as well as a few position vacancies.
Announcements
  • Reminder: Call for Papers for Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, guest edited by Nasim Niknafs
  • Book Announcements:
    • Education, Music, and the Lives of Undergraduates: Collegiate A Cappella and the Pursuit of Happiness by Roger Mantie and Brent C. Talbot
    • Difference and Division in Music Education, edited by Alexis Anja Kallio
    • Popular Music Pedagogies: A Practical Guide for Music Teachers by Matthew Clauhs, Bryan Powell, & Ann C. Clements
  • International Society for Music Education (ISME) – 35th & 36th World Conferences
  • Internationalizing Higher Education – Bergen Summer Research School
  • 2021 Mountain Lake Colloquium Online
Conferences & Calls
  • International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education (ISSME) – Extended deadline!
  • Women in Popular Music: Their Musical, Education and Pedagogical Inspirations – Journal of Popular Music Education – Extended deadline!
  • 2021 Research Poster Session Announcement – Minnesota Society for Music Teacher Education (MMEA) – Deadline today!
  • Congress 2021 / Canadian University Music Annual Conference
Nominations & Awards
  • International Association for the Study of Popular Music (Canada) – 2021 IASPM-Canada Book Prize
  • Outstanding Early Career Paper in Music Education – American Educational Research Association (AERA)
Job Announcements
  • Assistant Director of Bands – Colorado State University
  • Assistant Lecturer/Assistant Teaching Professor of Music Education – Ball State University
  • Assistant, Associate or Full Professor of Music (Music Education) – Indiana University, Bloomington, Jacobs School of Music
  • Assistant Professor, Music Teaching and Learning – University of Southern California, Thornton School of Music

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