Student Music Educators of NYU

“We know that this is still not enough but we pledge to do more” - Dr. Schroeder.
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Thank you to everyone who signed our petition! We received 700 signatures from students, alumni, music educators, and more! We will be meeting with Dr. Schroeder to discuss the changes and to ensure that this will lead to sustained change in the program. Click the link in our bio to read the full response.
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Change starts with us.

We are calling on the NYU Steinhardt Music and Performing Arts Program to evaluate and rework the current core music history, theory, and aural comprehension classes. The current curricula is dominated by white musicians and composers within the Western Music tradition, thereby minimizing and perpetuating the erasure of non-white voices in collegiate musical study.

As a school that is training future sharers of music, whether it be through performance, business, production, or education, this is unacceptable.

Of course, this is not just about us and our education but also about changing the narrative of musical study at the collegiate level. This is about the centuries of erasure of marginalized voices in music. This is about making the choice to finally include, uplift, and normalize an education that tells the broader story of music history, and not just the music history of white people.

This is just a tiny movement in the broader context of societal changes that should be happening right now, but it is a change that can positively affect generations of musicians and music listeners. We hope that it will inspire the changing of curriculum not only at NYU, but at other schools of music as well.

If you would like to sign, go to change.org/anti-racist-mpap

Feel free to share out and let us know if you have any questions!

“If you can not say Black Lives Matter, you should not be teaching music”
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Music is inherently political. As music educators, we have an immense amount of influence on our students and school communities. We want to make sure this influence is being used to create awareness and positive change in our society!We are calling on our fellow music educators (especially our collegiate nyssma/nafme friends!) to share resources and ways you will be anti-racist in your classrooms! We have included our thoughts and favorite resources in the hopes that we can help change the future of music education! Feel free to share, comment more resources, and of course donate or sign petitions to support the Black Lives Matter movement: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/

-with love,
The 2019-2020 SMENYU E-Board

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Thank you NYSSMA for another fun and insightful conference💙 We can’t wait to keep coming back for more!!

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@ Floreano Convention Center