Mixed Race Stories in Classical Music

With Danielle Jagelski

About Danielle:

Danielle Jagelski is a conductor and composer based in New York City. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Danielle is the Music Director and co-founder of Renegade Opera, an immersive opera company based in Portland, OR.  At home in both choral and instrumental realms, Danielle serves as cover conductor at Manhattan School of Music, and has recently conducted at Hallowed Halls (Portland, OR) and Aquilon Music Festival (McMinnville, OR). Danielle is a fierce advocate for equity in musical spaces, and has presented her research in mixed-race studies and classical music throughout the US and Canada.  Danielle began her musical studies in music composition at Hamline University with Jannika Vandervelde, and conducting studies at Conservatorium van Amsterdam. She is currently pursuing further studies in Orchestral Conducting at Manhattan School of Music with Maestro George Manahan.

Danielle’s recommended resources:

  1. Native Classical: Musical Modernities, Indigenous Research Methodologies, and a Kanienkéha (Mohawk) Concept of Non:wa (now) by Dawn Avery (University of Maryland, 2014)

  2. Rodrigo's Reconsideration: Intersectionality and the Future of Critical Race Theory by Richard Delgado (Iowa Law Review, 2011)

  3. Experiencing Race as a Music Therapist: Personal Narratives by Susan Hadley (Barcelona Publishers, 2013)

  4. Other: Mixed Race in America, podcast miniseries hosted by Alex Laughlin (Washington Post, 2018)

  5. The New Race Question: How the Census Counts Multiracial Individuals by Joel Perlmann and Mary C. Waters (Russel Sage Foundation, 2002)

  6. Mixed Race Students in College: The Ecology of Race, Identity, and Community on Campus by Kristen A. Renn (SUNY Press, 2004)

  7. The Skin That We Sing: Culturally Responsive Choral Music Education by Julia Shaw (Music Educators Journal, 2012)

  8. Standing on Both Feet: Voices of Older Mixed-Race Americans by Cathy J. Tashiro (Routledge, 2013)

  9. New Ethnicities and Old Classities: Respectability and Diaspora by Katharine Tyler (Social Identities, 2011)

  10. From the 1970s to the 1790s and the Importance of Metanarratives by Hazel Waters (Race and Class, 2016)