Dr. Katya Ermolaeva
Nov 3 · 1 min read

There is a growing crowd-sourced Google document (started by Martin Urbach) on racist songs in music education and under the document’s second tab you can view a growing list of anti-racist songs (see here). As I’ve mentioned in other responses, Bessie Jones’ Step it Down is an excellent resource for African-American children’s songs, and many play-party songs (with origins in European-American rural frontier communities) are also not racist in origin.

    Dr. Katya Ermolaeva

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    Musicologist, music editor, music educator & musicological consultant. | Russian & Soviet Music | American Children’s Music