Nate Holder
@N8Holder
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Musician | Award-winning author of 12 books | Consultant | Founder of 'The Why Books'
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Hi folks! If you've found 'If I Were A Racist' to be useful/insightful, please take a moment to give it a rating on Amazon or anywhere else. As a self-published book, it helps so much to have ratings and reviews! Thanks in advance 🙏
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Since
@its_adamneely
played 'King Kunta' by Kendrick Lamar on bass, here's me playing 'Venom' by
@LittleSimz
on sax
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The real point of music education is to stop people coming up to me while I'm playing my saxophone and saying, 'I love the trumpet'
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Here it is
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Humbled to be named International Chair of Music Education... Looking forward to the next few years at
@RNCMvoice
✊🏾
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In all seriousness, if you work with children in EYFS and KS1, are passionate about music and believe in diversity and representation, this book should be part of your library
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Black female composers poster A1 and A2 (fully laminated) available now at
#BlackHistoryMonth
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To all you music educators working hard to diversify, equalise and become more inclusive, keep going ✊🏾❤
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Does anyone else ever write down a task you've already done, just so you can feel satisfied when you cross it out??
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Still buzzing from last nights award win for Excellence in Primary/Early years for our book 'Listen and Celebrate' 🎉 Proud of Helen MacGregor and everyone on thr
@CollinsMusicEd
team! Officially an award-winning author 😊🏆👊🏾
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Thinking about facilitating a series of CPD workshops focused on understanding cultural contexts/history of styles like the blues, hip hop, reggae, samba etc alongside other musicians/educators. Who would be interested?
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So... my poem was taken down from a music teachers forum as a few people reported the post as it was causing "anxiety and stress"...
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The response to this book so far has been overwhelming! Just run out of stock (!!) so some of your orders will be on the way by the end of the week!
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Did you know? A report in 2017 revealed that only 0.09% of all childrens books about music had Black or Brown representation. This is why I do what I do.
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I think I need to write a book about decolonising music ed... already got a title in my mind too
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It's official! I'm launching a music podcast for kids on Feb 1st called 'The Why Music Podcast'. Been wanting to do something like this for a while, and hopefully it gives many music teachers some more online learning content 🙏🏾
#musiced
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"Fees for children learning a musical instrument at school will be removed thanks to more than £7 million funding from the Scottish Government." - Respect Scotland 👏🏾👏🏾
Instrumental tuition fees removed in Scotland 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🎉
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How often do you see panels like this at national music education conferences in the UK? Thank you
@OsosanyaSultan
@TheCreative_Edu
@maximeconatus
and Kyle McInnis for sharing your practise, and inspiring everyone at the
@musicmarkuk
conference today
#AllAboutThatAction
#MusicEd
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This is straight from the BBC Ten Pieces website. There is evidence that Handel invested in the Royal African Company, which was one of the main traders of enslaved Africans in the 1700's. Calling him an 'extremely clever businessman' is racist and disgusting
@BBC
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'Where Are All The Instruments? West Africa' is officially published today 🎉 Available from , Amazon, and all other online stores 💪🏾 Thanks to everyone who's assisted in different ways - here's to creating more kids books that inspire and educate 🔥🙏🏾
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Good news.. the website that plagiarized my Black Composers T-shirt design has taken it down
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You don't understand... to go from an idea in Jan 2020, to having hundreds of kids access my books in this way is unreal. All 4 books were written and published by myself in the last 18 months.. it's been tough but absolutely worth the sacrifice 😭😭😭
It's envelope stuffing day! The team have spent the day getting copies of
@N8Holder
's books ready to ship.
Gifted by Inspiring Music to schools in Central Beds, we can't wait for students to discover that no matter where they are from or who they are they can make music too.
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Diversifying is not the same as decolonising. Just a reminder 👀
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Happy to share that my book 'Listen & Celebrate: Activities to enrich and diversify primary music' in collaboration with Helen McGregor and
@CollinsMusicEd
will be released on 14th March 2022! Pre-order from 🙏🏾
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I want to write a book called 'How Gospel Musicians Learn' as a 'response' to Lucy Green's 'How Popular Musicians Learn' (2001).
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Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram are down... but our instruments aren't so... 🎷
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So pleased to share that 'Where Are All The Instruments? West Africa' is now available to pre-order 🎉🎉 Order today and get 10% off and get your copy 2 weeks early during Black History Month 🔴⚫️🟢
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I need a website developer to revamp the Why Music website... know anyone??
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Every school in Haringey is getting a copy of my books 🤯 I'm so happy many kids will have access to the stories and people mainstream education has marginalised 🙏🏾
🎶 Exciting resources incoming for
#Haringey
schools! 🎵
Our brilliant partners
@haringey_music
are sending a set of
@N8Holder
's inspiring books to each and every Haringey school.
#BAMEAchievement
#InclusiveCurriculum
#MusicEd
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There are so many things we can learn in the UK from South African music educators 🔥
Nothing like a bit of Vivaldi played by The Goede Hoop Marimba Band to bring joy to any day
#WednesdayMotivation
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Feeling very blessed and fortunate to see another year of life 🙏🏾 It's been one of the most fulfilling and exciting years of my life and I wouldn't be here without my amazing family, great friends and dope colleagues 👊🏾
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I'm looking to set up a Foundation very soon, to support young musicians in the UK... any tips?
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I'm finding it increasingly difficult and exhausting to talk, and write about decolonising music ed (in primary and secondary) for many different reasons. Emotionally and mentally draining 😔
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I'm looking for an illustrator of Native American heritage... DMs are open 🙏🏾
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With it's origins coming from blackface minstrel shows, denegrating Black and Indigenous peoples, y'all probably shouldn't have included this one....
#modelmusiccurriculum
@educationgovuk
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Just because Black people sing a religious song in a church, doesn't make it gospel music
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In other news, an A1 poster celebrating Black female composers will be available soon via my website
#MusicEd
#BlackComposers
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New tshirts (modeled by yours truly)... Head over to to get yours 🔴⚫🟢
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If we're serious about decolonising in music education, we should think long and hard about the hows and whys around musically celebrating the Queens Jubilee
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Played an actual gig in front of actual people last night... here's a clip of one of our originals
@betweenworldsuk
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A few thoughts on the Speake email and Black musicians at Trinity Laban and the wider UK jazz scene
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Can we decolonise music education without thinking about the economics of colonialism?
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Decolonisation is not the same as diversity, inclusion, equality or equity!!
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Happy to share that my 11th book entitled 'The World of Music and How it Moves Us' will be published by
@OxUniPress
on the 2nd May 2024 🙌🏾 So excited for y'all to get a hold of it 👊🏾
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My one and only saxophone student just achieved a distinction for her Grade 2 after a year of us working together... really really proud 🙌🏾
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I'm 100% up for doing some book readings with schools from September... drop me a message if you want me to do something with your young people!
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Messing around over 'In A Sentimental Mood'... feeling rusty af but sometimes it feels so good to stop everything else and just play...
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Examples of musical intervals using the music of Black women... including Errollyn Wallen, Lalah Hathaway, Joy Denalane, Tania León, Nina Simone, Camilla George, Nubya Garcia and more
@ErrollynWallen
@Camilla_sax
@nubya_garcia
I've been working on a small music ed resource, giving examples of intervals up to an octave, but only using the music of Black women. One more interval to find, but will hopefully publish on the blog later today 👍🏾
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I've been working on a small music ed resource, giving examples of intervals up to an octave, but only using the music of Black women. One more interval to find, but will hopefully publish on the blog later today 👍🏾
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Excited isn't the word 🙌🏾🔥🔥
Copies of multi-talented
@N8Holder
's books 📚will be landing in schools over the coming days.
Gifted by Inspiring Music, these books help to show students that no matter where they are from or who they are, they can play and make music too.
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Thank you for all of the likes, retweets and replies... i appreciate you all and i'll reply in the morning... we can't, and won't, let a few people stop us from making a difference
#DecoloniseMusicEd
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No mention of using music as a vehicle to combat homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, cyber bullying or any other injustice that children are aware of or experience...
#modelmusiccurriculum
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Slowly putting a PhD proposal together... slowly being the operative word!
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We want to create a new exam board that pursues musical excellence with equality, diversity and inclusion at its core
#BlackLivesMatter
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Our new exam board will seek to formally recognise the skill of playing and improvising by ear.
#BlackLivesMatter
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Absolutely tired of being asked to speak at conferences and being the only person of colour speaking or leading a workshop. I'm aware that there may not be many of us who have the time or even want to (for a myriad of reasons), but still. If you get it, you get it.
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Happy to share that The Why Music Festival will take place on the 4th July 2023! It's a free, online, day of book readings and interviews for Primary children with
@yolandabrown
@team_recorder
@AnnemarieAnang
@jayphelpsmusic
and more! 👇🏾👇🏾🎉
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I had the pleasure of reading my upcoming book 'Where Are All The Instruments? West Africa' 🌍 to a group of children at Normanton Library in Derby! We read the book, found the hidden instruments, used our interactive map to watch some performances
@DerbyLibraries
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Just finished a wonderful reading session of 'Where Are All The Instruments? West Africa' at
@Tate
. We laughed, we played, we performed, we learned 💪🏾 Thanks for having me
@tate_kids
👊🏾🔥
#bhm
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I'm in a book called 'A Year of Black Joy'!!! It's so so surreal to see my name alongside so many incredible people. Massive shoutout to Jamia Wilson and the team for including me in this joyful book 💜
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Delighted to have consulted and written for this amazing resource. Great to finally have a copy in my hands 🙌🏾
@dkbooks
@toucanbooks
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This is 🔥🔥🔥
Nothing like a bit of Vivaldi played by The Goede Hoop Marimba Band to bring joy to any day
#WednesdayMotivation
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My next book is all about instruments from West Africa for children 👊🏾 - who should I get in contact with about getting it reviewed/interview opportunities?
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If anyone is interested in putting together a module on Black British music let's talk. There are so many questions, music and stories to explore, its appalling that it's not happening enough
I'm interested to know if there any modules or programmes dedicated to Black British music at any HEIs?
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No mention of trying to use music as a vehicle for anti-racism
#priorities
#modelmusiccurriculum
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An emotional session tonight, especially around unpacking the language and origins of the Blues and Gospel music. For such beauty to come out of such pain is mind-blowing and humbling. We have such a responsibility to ensure that the sacredness of its origins is understood 🙏🏾
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WOW... Day 1 and we're out of stock on Amazon and the
@CollinsMusicEd
website... lost for words 🥺🙏🏾
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@Johnfinney8
For the majority of people in the world, learning an instrument has nothing to do with exams
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If you were to construct a history of music without mentioning style eras (i.e. Classical c.1730-1820), what would you use? Mine would be social themes - i.e. Nature 1650-1720, Manual Labour 1800-1890, Womens Rights 1890-1930
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I couldn't work out why I've been feeling so tired recently, then someone had to remind me that I published 2 books last month with no major publisher, PR or marketing budgets. Exhausting. If you have bought any of the books, feel free to tweet me a picture - energy needed!!
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Hoping to share the artwork for my upcoming children's book on Black Female Composers next week
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Services for Education have agreed to give 100 copies of 'Where Are All The Instruments? West Africa' to schools in the Birmingham area 🙌🏾
#WestmeetsWest
#EDI
#musiced
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Over 80 named composers 🙌🏾
'In a mere 79 pages,
@N8Holder
introduces over 30 composers of colour, arranged in chronological order.'
@BlackOperaNet
@dirkster42_
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'Where Are All The Black Female Composers?' is now available at !
#BlackHistoryMonth
#MusicEd
#RepresentationMatters
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Anti-racism training should be as frequent and as embedded into institutional culture as safeguarding is.
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