Sound Pedagogy

Colleen Renihan is an associate professor and Queen's National Scholar in Music Theatre and Opera at Queen's University. She is and the author of The Operatic Archive: American Opera as History. John Spilker is an associate professor of music at Nebraska Wesleyan University. Trudi Wright is an associate professor of music and director of the music program at Regis University.

"A direct call for action grounded in the day-to-day work we do as teachers. Inspired by recent work in musicology and related fields, this is the first collection that brings scholars, teachers, and administrators together to think collectively about student wellbeing and the need for instructors to center care in their pedagogy."--Loren Kajikawa, author of Sounding Race in Rap Songs

• Foreword William Cheng Introduction: Radical Care Colleen Renihan, John Spilker, Trudi Wright Part I. The Heart of Curricular Interventions Chapter 1. Re-Enchanting Music History Sara Haefeli Chapter 2. Teaching Approaches to Race Through Music: A Timely Example from the American South Molly M. Breckling Chapter 3. Empathy in Opera Colleen Renihan Chapter 4. Integrating Wellbeing and Intersectional Equity Across a Revised Music History and Culture Curriculum John Spilker Chapter 5. Care, Carefully: Caring for the Whole Student from Recruitment through Retention Frederick A. Peterbark Chapter 6. Kindness as Universal Design: Rethinking the College Music Classroom from Within Stephanie Jensen-Moulton Part II. Unmeasured Pedagogical Horizons Chapter 7. Connecting Students and Artistic Communities: Understanding Agency, Fostering Empathy, and Expanding Representation in the Classroom Mark Katz Chapter 8. Towards Socially Responsible Music History Pedagogy: A Rant, Some Theories and A Few Resources Eric Hung Chapter 9. Public Musicology as Care, or How Should We Respond When the Duke of Mantua Tells Us That All Women Are Fickle? William A. Everett and Matteo Magarotto Chapter 10. Listening with Care to Nonhuman Musicality and Material Culture Kate Galloway Part III. Self-Care, the Root of Teaching Chapter 11. Curriculum Changing Culture: Improving the Mental Health of University Music Students Nathan A. Langfitt Chapter 12. Teaching the First-Generation College Student in the Music History Classroom: A Student-to-Professor Perspective Reba A. Wissner Chapter 13. New Waters in Music: Recognizing and Processing Trauma While Trying to Diversify a School of Music's Curriculum Offerings Amanda Christina Soto Chapter 14. Lessons in Student- and Self-Care from Trauma: A Personal Narrative Laura Moore Pruett Chapter 15. Mental Health and the Pedagogy of Self-Disclosure Mary Natvig Chapter 16. Modeling Cura Personalis: Caring for Our Students and Ourselves Trudi Wright Epilogue: Care for Now Colleen Renihan, John Spilker, Trudi Wright Contributors Index