Culturally Responsive Teaching in Music Education: From Understanding to Application,
Second Edition, presents teaching methods that are responsive to how different culturally
specific knowledge bases impact learning. It offers a pedagogy that recognizes the
importance of including students' cultural references in all aspects of learning. Designed as
a resource for teachers of undergraduate and graduate music education courses, the book
provides examples in the context of music education, with theories presented in Part I and a …

In the book's penultimate chapter, titled “Community,” we encounter a teacher who agrees to
a student's request to start a mariachi band and gets “more than he bargained for.” 1 We
hear from a teacher who seeks a greater understanding of the context for her Black students
and finds herself the only White person in many of the community events she attends. We
learn about a teacher who has her marching band, predominantly comprised of Latinx
students, march in annual Korean and Black community parades in the city and why she …