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.
Nation and Gender in Higher Classical Music Education: Intersectional Perspectives
1st Edition
By Ann Werner, Cecelia Ferm Almqvist
May 13, 2026
This book asks how nation and gender shapes higher classical music education in Europe today. Building on transnational research in three European higher music education institutions, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, and the Sibelius Academy, University of ...
Music Education in Times of Eco-Social Crisis: Healing the Fragmentation of Psyche, Society, and Nature
1st Edition
By Tawnya D. Smith
December 23, 2025
This book explores how music education can remain relevant in an era of multiple environmental crises that threaten human thriving and life on a planetary scale. The author argues that music educators must join with educators in other fields to deconstruct unsustainable ideologies and replace them ...
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 ...
Music Education in Africa: Concept, Process, and Practice
1st Edition
By Emily Achieng’ Akuno
December 18, 2020
This book explores the music of Africa and its experience in modern education, offering music education analyses from African perspectives. The collection assembles insights from around Africa to bring African and non-African scholars into the world of music, education, policy, and assessment as ...
Educational Change and the Secondary School Music Curriculum in Aotearoa New Zealand
1st Edition
Edited
By Graham McPhail, Vicki Thorpe, Stuart Wise
August 14, 2020
Educational Change and the Secondary School Music Curriculum in Aotearoa New Zealand provides a fascinating case study in educational change. The music curriculum has been greatly affected by deep cultural and economic forces such as the growth of popular music's importance in young people's lives,...
Giving Voice to Democracy in Music Education: Diversity and Social Justice in the Classroom
1st Edition
Edited
By Lisa C. DeLorenzo
June 30, 2020
This book examines how music education presents opportunities to shape democratic awareness through political, pedagogical, and humanistic perspectives. Focusing on democracy as a vital dimension in teaching music, the essays in this volume have particular relevance to teaching music as ...
Contemporary Research in Music Learning Across the Lifespan: Music Education and Human Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Jennifer Bugos
December 10, 2019
This book examines contemporary issues in music teaching and learning throughout the lifespan, illuminating an emerging nexus of trends shaping modern research in music education. In the past, most music learning opportunities and research were focused upon the pre-adult population. Yet, music ...
Improvisation and Music Education: Beyond the Classroom
1st Edition
Edited
By Ajay Heble, Mark Laver
December 10, 2019
This book offers compelling new perspectives on the revolutionary potential of improvisation pedagogy. Bringing together contributions from leading musicians, scholars, and teachers from around the world, the volume articulates how improvisation can breathe new life into old curricula; how it can ...