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  • Home
  • About
    • Mission
    • History >
      • Previous Staff
      • Previous Schedules
      • Artwork
    • Rules and Policies
    • Discussions & Resources
    • The Organizing Committee
    • How We Choose Our Staff
    • Facing and Challenging Racism in the Trad Song community
  • 2023 Weekend
    • Register
    • 2023 Staff
    • 2023 Schedule >
      • Lead a Workshop!
      • 2023 Workshop Descriptions
    • Rules and Policies >
      • Packing List
      • Covid-19 Policy
      • Code of Conduct
      • Substance Policy
      • Recording Policy
  • FAQS
    • General FAQS
    • Registration FAQS
  • Support YTS
    • Friends and Sponsors
  • Contact
  • Lottery Registration Explained

Discussions & Resources

At each Youth Traditional Song Weekend, we host several discussions on various song-related topics. Here are some of the notes from those discussions, whose participants included YTS attendees (many of whom are organizers themselves) and YTS Committee members.  These notes don't represent a set of rules or endorsements about singing or organizing, but they are meant to share out the thoughts and ideas from the discussion sessions. We have also listed some resources for further learning. We don't necessarily endorse everything in these pages, but have found these helpful. 
Discussions
​Fostering Intergenerational Community - 2015
Issues in Traditional Song Past & Present - 2016
​Singing Events and Resources - 2016
Race in the Trad Song Community Discussion - 2019
Materials from 3 YTS Committee-led Antiracist Learning Sessions - 2021
Further Reading: Resources
​Community and Connection: Rhiannon Giddens Keynote at IBMA 2017
The Invisible Knapsack: Peggy McIntosh 
​​Decolonizing the Music Room
1619 Project: The Birth of American Music
Creepy Dudes: Captain Awkward

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