National Association for Music Education FB post

New blog: “Ella Jenkins’ Fugitive Civil Rights Pedagogy: Celebrating the First Lady of Children’s Music at 100” by Gayle F. Wald: https://nafme.org/blog/ella-jenkins-fugitive-civil-rights-pedagogy/

Ella Jenkins, the First Lady of Children’s Music, turns 100 on August 6. To celebrate, we feature an excerpt from scholar Gayle F. Wald’s forthcoming biography ‘This Is Rhythm: Ella Jenkins, Children’s Music, and the Long Civil Right Movement’. Based on seven years of research and scores of interviews, it sets Jenkins’ life and work within a larger story of civil rights activism, showing how she used music to model a social world in which children—and adults—are comfortable with, and open to listening to, each other’s distinct rhythms.

much more info at:
https://nafme.org/blog/ella-jenkins-fugitive-civil-rights-pedagogy/