Recent studies by a growing number of scholars have explored the relationship between the history of music education and ethnomusicology.

The relationship between the history of brass education and the cultural history of Hong Kong in the context of this former British colony has not been widely linked.

In this episode I'm going to try to engage in a dialogue with the existing literature and try to get my point of view heard by the academic community.

Welcome to silken temperament. a podcast about music, history, and culture. I am Xinda, a musicologist, musician, and music educator.

In this episode we will explore the relationship between Chinese music education and European colonial history.

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Selected bibliography

Attas, Robin, and Margaret E. Walker. “Exploring Decolonization, Music, and Pedagogy: Editorial.” Intersections: Canadian Journal of Music 39, no. 1 (2019): 3-20.

Barlow, Tani E. “Colonialism’s Career in Postwar China Studies.” In Colonialism’s Career in Postwar China Studies, 373–412. Duke University Press, 1997.

Bradley, Deborah. “Good for What, Good for Whom?: Decolonizing Music Education Philosophies.” In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education, edited by Wayne Bowman and Ana Lucía Frega, 408-433. Oxford University Press, 2012.

Bull, Anna Louise, Diljeet Bhachu, and Amy Blier-Carruthers. “Slow Train Coming?:Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in UK Higher Education.” 2022.

Burnett, Philip, Erin Johnson-Williams, and Yvonne Liao. “Music, Empire, Colonialism: Sounding the Archives.” Postcolonial Studies 26, no. 3 (3 July 2023): 345–359.

Chávez, Luis, and Russell P. Skelchy. “Decolonization for Ethnomusicology and Music Studies in Higher Education.” Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education 18, no. 3 (September 2019): 115–143.

Chen, David, Jason A. Miller, and Mark Shakespear. “Critical Han Studies Through the Lens of Internal Colonialism: China, Guangdong, and Hong Kong.” Critical Sociology 50, no. 1 (1 January 2024): 141–163.