Music Education for Social Change: Constructing an Activist Music Education develops an
activist music education rooted in principles of social justice and anti-oppression. Based on …

In this paper, I advocate for the use of explicit language for discussions of race and call for
music education to move out of terminal naivety (Vaugeois 2013) toward a heightened …

The first book-length introduction to an exciting new interdisciplinary field—written by an
internationally recognized leader of the Contemplative Studies movement This is the first …

In this paper, we report on a qualitative study based on the “Meet4Music”(M4M) project
recently developed at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria. M4M is a …

Critiques and calls for reform have existed for decades within music education, but few
publications have offered concrete suggestions as to how things might be done differently …

Every human culture engages in activities that people recognize as musical. And in various
ways, such behavior is often characterized by spontaneous acts of sound making. While …

This paper reports the development and implementation of a unique Mindfulness for Singers
(MfS) course designed to improve singers' vocal technique. Eight university students …

While imagination, venturing far from reality, affords the special conceptions and figurations
in fiction even of the impossible, it is also integrated in our dealings with reality in multiple …

During 2013–2014, the Task Force on the Undergraduate Music Major of the USA's College
Music Society prepared a report entitled Transforming Music Study from its Foundations: A …

Black Music Matters: Jazz and the Transformation of Music Studies is one of the first books to
promote the reform of music studies with a centralized presence of jazz and black music to …