Dialogues: towards decolonising music and dance studies

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Notes

1 Although the phrase, ‘I can’t breathe’, was most powerfully associated with Floyd’s death, it had also belonged to Eric Garner (d. 2014), John Elliott Neville (d. 2019), and Edward Bronstein (d. 2020), to name but a few. In the UK, it had been the last words of Jimmy Mubenga (d. 2010), Adrian McDonald (d. 2014), Ian Taylor (d. 2019) and more.

2 The recommendations have been adopted to become the ‘ICTM Statement and Activities in View of Decolonisation of Music and Dance Studies’, ICTM, accessed 10 August 2023, https://www.ictmusic.org/documents/decolonization-music-dance-studies.

3 The introduction to the digital book written by the two co-editors, Tan and Ostashewski, articulates this intellectual vision. However, I think it is more potently expressed—perhaps given its brevity and therefore concision—in the original Call for Presentations, and I quote from the CfP.

4 Normally written in the plural, ‘World Englishes’ refer to ‘stable and localized varieties of English with properties and functions of their own’ (Schneider 2018).

5 Pilzer borrows the word ‘copresent’ from Erving Goffman (Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates [Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1963], 22).