DEIB Teaching Resources for Music
The 1700s: A Diverse Century
Compiled by Laurel E. Zeiss and Kimary Fick, with contributions from multiple members of the Society for Eighteenth Century Music.
Welcome to SECM’s Teaching Resources that promote diversity, equity, and belonging. We hope the resources below will expand the ways we teach and think about eighteenth-century music. The following webpages include articles, book chapters, websites, and other resources to help teachers and students learn more about how music from the 1700s intersects with racism, slavery, imperialism, and social discrimination as well as ways to address that legacy in our classrooms.
The compiled teaching resources have been organized into broad, hopefully inclusive, categories. Some entries include brief annotations about what the resource covers and how SECM members have incorporated it into their college-level courses. Our list includes some general resources and books and articles that have influenced our thinking about music pedagogy and social justice.
We encourage everyone to contribute materials! This project will thrive if we have materials and teaching suggestions from a variety of people who teach in different places and educational settings. If you have resources to recommend or teaching activities you would like to share, we’d love to hear from you! Please email us.