The aim of this article is to explore how immigrant students experience and enact musical
agency inside and outside the music lessons in three Nordic lower secondary schools. The …

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 …

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 …

Studies on sociology and music education are important because they can enlighten how
music education relates to social change. By studying how music education changes and is …

Soldiers deserve respect for their courageous sacrifices, and a strong military is necessary
to the safety of any nation, but militarism—excessive emphasis on the military and its …

This article applies the Toulmin argument model of rhetorical analysis—which features
identification and dissection of the components of prominent enthymemes—to scrutinize …

This essay advances the argument that the fields of nature conservation and music
sustainability are unified by shared concerns. Namely, commodification and" economic …

Imperfections–such as inequality and inefficiency of learning–are perennial problems for
education despite a diversity of foundations on which national systems are established …