The Oxford Handbook of Feminism and Music Education

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Abstract The Oxford Handbook of Feminism and Music Education brings together a wide range of international scholars, practicing music educators (at all levels), policy makers, and community musicians to conceptualize, analyze, and/or critique the personal, social, cultural, political, ethical, and therapeutic potentials, practices, and/or problems in music and music education through feminist perspectives. Thus, the Oxford Handbook of Feminism and Music Education offers global, comprehensive, and critical perspectives on a wide range of conceptual and practical issues in music and music education as these apply to various forms of feminist perspectives in music teaching and learning within schools and communities. The central aims of this volume focus on broadening and deepening readers’ understandings of and critical thinking about feminist perspectives on the problems, opportunities, “spaces and places,” concepts, and practical strategies that music educators and community music facilitators employ, develop, and deploy to improve various aspects of music teaching and learning around the world. This book assists and motivates present and future music educators, community music facilitators, and arts and music activists as they attempt (a) to understand the many varieties and potentials of music teaching and learning, as described by the world-renowned scholars and community music practitioners in this book, and (b) to consider how traditional forms of musical pedagogies can be transformed in ways that will make them more mindful of and empathetic toward the personal and musical aims and desires of music students, musicians, and musical communities. This book will be of interest to teachers, scholars, administrators, and advocates who wish to redefine, refine, and redesign music teaching and learning practices and procedures.