DIALOGUES: Towards Decolonizing Music and Dance Studies

The Dialogues

In early 2021, the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) began a series of online sessions, the ICTM Dialogues.

The 2021 ICTM Dialogues focused on decolonizing music and dance studies from multiple viewpoints.

Select any of the pages on the right to watch the corresponding ICTM Dialogue, and to learn more about the session.

At the bottom of each ICTM Dialogue page, a Reflections and Questions section written by the speakers shares their post-presentation insights and facilitates continued discussion.

This page has paths:

  1. DIALOGUES: Towards Decolonizing Music and Dance Studies Tan Sooi Beng & Marcia Ostashewski (Co-Editors), The International Council for Traditional Music

Contents of this path:

  1. A Latin American Dialogue for Social Inclusion
  2. From Cosmopolitanism to Cosmology
  3. Insider Dance Research and Resulting Discourses in Seven African Countries
  4. Collaborative Methodologies for Decentring Power Hierarchies in Education, Artistic Research, and Museum Curating
  5. Painting Ecuador Anew
  6. Dance, Body and Decoloniality
  7. Decolonization of High-Impact International Journals of Music
  8. “Piti Piti Zwazo Fè Nich”? (Little by Little the Bird Makes its Nest)
  9. Challenging Embedded Coloniality in Music History Curricula
  10. Ethnomusicology in Rio de Janeiro: Its Praxis, Methods, and Political Engagements
  11. Working Together? Interrogating Collaboration towards Decolonizing Music and Dance Research
  12. Collaborative Knowledge Production in the Territories of the Southern Cone
  13. Embracing a Decentred Approach in the Borderlands of Ethnomusicology
  14. Notes for a Practical Concept of (De)coloniality in the Context of Music and Dance Practice
  15. Making Cultura Popular Brasileira (Brazilian Popular Culture)
  16. Kopi One! How to Ownself-Check-Ownself
  17. Reading Together in a Far-Reaching Community
  18. Decolonizing African Compositions
  19. The Necessity of a Decolonial Frame
  20. Decolonizing Tunisian Mālūf
  21. Cucumbis, Jongo, and Samba de Partido Alto
  22. Shifting Identities
  23. MULTÍLOGOS
  24. Towards Decolonization of the Curricula in Nigerian Musical Arts Education