Routledge Studies in Music Education
About the Book Series
This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections covering Music Education. Considering music performance, theory, and culture alongside topics such as special education, multicultural education, music therapy, policy, pedagogy, community, and technology, titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
Musical Vulnerability: Receptivity, Susceptibility, and Care in the Music Classroom
1st Edition
By Elizabeth H. MacGregor
December 24, 2024
Since the early twenty- first century, music education across the world has been shaped by neoliberal discourse extolling the benefits of music upon academic achievement, health and wellbeing, and social development. However, such benefits are far from universal; on the contrary, music- making ...
What Music Schools Learned from the Pandemic: The 2020 Revision
1st Edition
By Robert Cutietta
December 03, 2024
The pandemic and social unrest during the year of 2020 set in motion sudden and drastic changes to how collegiate music was taught. Teachers and students experienced the most dramatic disruption in the history of the music teaching profession. This book examines the state of collegiate music ...
Unfreezing Music Education: Critical Formalism and Possibilities for Self-Reflexive Music Learning
1st Edition
By Paul Louth
November 28, 2024
Unfreezing Music Education argues that discussing the conflicting meanings of music should occupy a more central role in formal music education and music teacher preparation programs than is currently the case. Drawing on the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, the author seeks to take a ...
The Applied Studio Model in Higher Music Education: Critical Perspectives and Opportunities
1st Edition
By Kelly A. Parkes, Ryan Daniel
November 15, 2024
This book presents an examination of the applied music studio as part of higher education. Applied music studios are where students learn an instrument or voice in one-to-one settings with high-level musician teachers. This book reconceptualizes this teaching model within higher education, and it ...
Knowledge and Music Education: A Social Realist Account
1st Edition
By Graham J. McPhail
October 07, 2024
Knowledge and Music Education: A Social Realist Account explores current challenges for music education in relation to wider philosophical and political debates, and seeks to find a way forward for the field by rethinking the nature and value of epistemic knowledge in the wake of postmodern ...