Popular music education is becoming firmly established as an academic field, in the UK and
internationally. In order to help ensure that scholarship and practice within the field develop …

Pierre Bourdieu has been an extraordinarily influential figure in the sociology of music. For
over four decades, his concepts have helped to generate both empirical and theoretical …

One way to critique popular music education (PME) would be to ask what good or successful
PME might look like. A successful education may, for instance, lead to agency …

Educational policies tend to be shaped by the interaction of sociohistorical contexts with
global forces, for which the issues of diversity and inclusion in music education are …

The roots of much of the world's popular music may be traced to blues and rock—styles that
originated in the Southern Mississippi Valley in the early 20th century—yet when considered …

Finland is a nation well known for its music traditions. According to the Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the concept" nationalism" is used to describe two phenomena …

Abstract The Central Communist Party (CCP) of the People's Republic of China (PRC)
describes China as a unified multinational country. National policies advocate cultural …

Philosophers have long questioned the practice of inculcating national identity in young
children, yet throughout history and across diverse cultures patriotic education may be …

Folk music programmes have been a major feature of higher education music departments
across the Nordic region for several decades. Still, programmes that offer the opportunity to …

This doctoral thesis is an investigation of gender constructions in Norwegian secondary
school music education. With the high influence of popular music and band instrumentation …