ISME Series in Music Education
About the Book Series
- The ISME Global Perspectives in Music Education Series encompasses publications that focus critical thought in a single issue and/or drive policy and practice forward through new resources, approaches, pedagogies and insights.
- The ISME Specialist Themes in Music Education Series includes books that draw on the cutting-edge research being carried out within ISME areas and provide a site for deep critical interrogation of the issues at hand and/or resources for practitioners based on the work of ISME Commissions, Special Interest Groups, Forum and Standing Committees.
Each series offers a focused conduit through which members of ISME and their colleagues can publish scholarly and instructional work.
Proposals are welcome!
To be included in, contribute to, and/or submit a proposal, authors must be (or become) a member of the International Society for Music Education (ISME). The collaboration with the Canadian Music Educators’ Association (CMEA) also encourages and enables contributions from CMEA members for inclusion in either of the two series.
For more information please refer to the guidelines at www.isme.org/isme-routledge-book-series.
Senior Editor: David Gabriel Herbert (Western Norway Univeristy of Applied Sciences)
Assistant Editor: Esther Zhang
Editorial Board:
• Emily Akuno
• Gwen Moore
• José Luis Aróstegui
• Pamela Burnard
• David G. Hebert
• Chee Hoo Lum
• Alexandra Kertz Welzel
• Susan O’Neill
• John O’Flynn
• Lee Higgins
Past Editors: Gwen Moore, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Dawn Bennett, Curtin University (Series Editor-in-Chief); Margaret Barrett, University of Queensland (Senior Editor, Global Perspectives in Music Education); Jennifer Rowley, Sydney Conservatorium of the University of Sydney (Senior Editor, Specialist Themes in Music Education); Jennie Henley, Royal Northern College of Music (Senior Editor),
Music Education in South Asia: Context and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By André de Quadros, Sandra Oberoi
June 10, 2026
Music Education in South Asia: Context and Practice weaves together a powerful collection of stories and insights from music educators, scholars, and practitioners across the region. Despite its rich musical heritage, research and writing focused on music education and music in education across ...
A Philosophy of Music Education for the Era of AI
1st Edition
By Jiaxing Xie, David G. Hebert
May 20, 2026
This book outlines a philosophy of music education that is responsive to the age of artificial intelligence. Against the background of AI's challenges to human modes of production, the authors demonstrate how music education can become a tool for self-discovery in this transformative era. Taking ...
Decolonising and Indigenising Music Education: First Peoples Leading Research and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Te Oti Rakena, Clare Hall, Anita Prest, David Johnson
December 25, 2025
Centring the voices of Indigenous scholars at the intersection of music and education, this co-edited volume contributes to debates about current colonising music education research and practices, and offers alternative decolonising approaches that support music education imbued with Indigenous ...
Music Schools in Changing Societies: How Collaborative Professionalism Can Transform Music Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Michaela Hahn, Cecilia Björk, Heidi Westerlund
September 28, 2025
Music Schools in Changing Societies addresses the need to understand instrumental and vocal pedagogy beyond the individual sphere of teacher–student interactions and psychological phenomena, focusing instead on the wider sociocultural, spatial, and institutional contexts of music education. Viewing...
Research Perspectives on Music Education in Ibero-America: Celebrating 10 Years of ISME’s Revista Internacional de Educación Musical
1st Edition
Edited
By Rosa María Serrano, Guadalupe López-Íñiguez, José Luis Aróstegui, Gwen Moore
February 26, 2025
This volume brings together a selection of essential articles from the journal Revista Internacional de Educación Musical (RIEM), a Spanish-language journal published by the International Society for Music Education, making this work available to an English-speaking audience for the first time. ...
The Transformative Politics of Music Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Tuulikki Laes, Gert Biesta, Heidi Westerlund
February 14, 2025
This book introduces a unique approach to the interconnections between music education and politics. By taking a broader, more diverse, and explicitly ethico-political philosophical and theoretical stance, the book challenges institutional and structural conditions that may be resistant to change ...
Remembering Musical Childhoods in Vietnam: 1931-1975
1st Edition
By Tina A. Huynh
August 06, 2024
This book offers an in-depth exploration of the childhood musical experiences of Vietnamese elders, providing a unique lens on the intersections between identity, culture, and music education. Centering the stories of five Vietnamese Americans and one Vietnamese person who grew up in Vietnam ...
Brazilian Research on Creativity Development in Musical Interaction
1st Edition
Edited
By Rosane Cardoso de Araújo
September 25, 2023
Brazilian Research on Creativity Development in Musical Interaction focuses on creativity that involves interactive musical activities, with different groups, such as professional musicians, students, and student teachers. It seeks to present research with a theoretical foundation on musical ...
Educating Musicians for Sustainability
1st Edition
By Anna Reid, Peter Petocz
September 25, 2023
Educating Musicians for Sustainability explores the intersections of sustainability and music, investigating how sustainability affects the development and professional preparation of musicians while asking the question, ‘What does sustainability have to do with music?’ The volume presents a series...
Gender Issues in Scandinavian Music Education: From Stereotypes to Multiple Possibilities
1st Edition
Edited
By Silje Valde Onsrud, Hilde Synnøve Blix, Ingeborg Lunde Vestad
January 09, 2023
Gender Issues in Scandinavian Music Education: From Stereotypes to Multiple Possibilities introduces much-needed updates to research and teaching philosophies that envision new ways of considering gender diversity in music education. This volume of essays by Scandinavian contributors looks beyond ...
Musical Gentrification: Popular Music, Distinction and Social Mobility
1st Edition
Edited
By Petter Dyndahl, Sidsel Karlsen, Ruth Wright
April 29, 2022
Musical Gentrification is an exploration of the role of popular music in processes of socio-cultural inclusion and exclusion in a variety of contexts. Twelve chapters by international scholars reveal how cultural objects of relatively lower status, in this case popular musics, are made objects of ...
The Instrumental Music Teacher: Autonomy, Identity and the Portfolio Career in Music
1st Edition
By Kerry Boyle, International Society for Music Education (ISME)
April 29, 2022
Instrumental teaching in the UK is characterised by a lack of regulation and curriculum, whereby individuals can teach with no training or qualification. Kerry Boyle explores the way in which individuals who begin teaching can negotiate successful careers in music without formal training. Existing ...