Uplifting the musical traditions of Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Asian (BBIA) peoples through education and performance
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A Kitchen Table Talk Series
This blog and video series highlights the stories shared during the first “Connection & Community” panel hosted by the NAfME Social Justice Special Research Interest Group (SRIG) in Feb 2026. The series aims to connect music educators and strengthen our capacity to create music learning spaces that reject and resist all forms of oppression and prejudice. By using kitchen table talks as a grounding format, the contributors of this series center the importance of storytelling as a means of knowledge-sharing.
July 15: Dr. Adrian Davis
July 22: Midsummer Panel Discussion Amy Lewis, Adrian Davis, Lorenzo Sánchez-Gatt, Lorelei Batisla-ong, Jesse Rathgetber
July 29: Dr. Lorenzo Sánchez-Gatt
Aug 12: Dr. Lorelei Batisla-ong & Dr. Jesse Rathgeber
Aug 16: End of Summer Virtual Gathering Amy Lewis, Adrian Davis, Lorenzo Sánchez-Gatt, Lorelei Batisla-ong, Jesse Rathgetber
What We Do
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Free Educational Content
Our site contains free content from Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Asian contributors in music ed, performance, ethnomusicology, and other fields. Panel discussions from BBIA professionals/culture bearers help guide understanding, learning, and application of antiracist and decolonizing approaches. View content on our Songs and Stories, In Practice, and Videos pages.
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Programs
DTMR provides programs in the Fort Worth community including the Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Asian Music Symposium, The Fort Worth African American Roots Music Festival, and the Community Artist Visiting Educator Program.
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Training and Consulting
We develop workshops and sessions and deliver to organizations, districts, colleges, and other groups, focusing in our antiracist and decolonization approaches and how to implement them in classroom and music making settings.
We also provide consultant services to individuals, groups, and organizations to take advantage of our expertise in antiracist and decolonizing approaches, cultural responsiveness, and research. Contact us for help with projects, events, camps, curriculum, and more. Contact us
Decolonizing the Music Room is located in Fort Worth, Texas which is the ancestral land of the Comanche, Kickapoo, and Wichita and Affiliated Tribes (Kitikiti'sh).
We acknowledge the original caretakers of this land, as well as their descendants and all Indigenous peoples who continue to make contributions to the land- past, present, and future. We honor the long history of Indigenous culture that has persisted for thousands of years, and recognize Indigenous ways of knowing that have been carried into the present.
We also acknowledge the forced, unpaid labor of enslaved Africans integral to the material, financial, and cultural construction of what today is known as the United States of America.
If you are a BBIA person who engages with musical traditions in any way- performance, education, research, history, therapy, etc.- and would like us to share your work on our resources page, or want to share the work of other BBIA people/organizations/initiatives/texts/media/etc. please fill out this form.
If you would like to submit content for publication on our website, check out our submission guidelines.
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