Music has long been a way in which visually impaired people could gain financial
independence, excel at a highly-valued skill, or simply enjoy musical participation. Existing …

Music education has faced considerable challenges in trying to bridge the gap between
music in young people's lives and that taking place in the classroom. The 'Musical Futures' …

This article reports on a case-control experiment that was conducted in 2012 as part of the
Ear Playing Project (EPP) at the Institute of Education, University of London. The EPP …

This article explores the informal and formal learning experiences of 20 activist-musicians.
Multiple activist-musicians utilized the informal learning strategies Green identifies. More …

The social world is accumulated history, and if it is not to be reduced to a discontinuous
series of instantaneous mechanical equilibria between agents who are treated as …

Twenty years have passed since Green's [2002. How Popular Musicians Learn: A way
Ahead for Music Education. Aldershot: Ashgate] publication which proposed a model of …

Social justice is a term that has been understood in different ways and, consequently, its
application has also been diverse (Fraser, 1995, 2001, 2005, 2008; Gould, 2007; …

In Wales, one of the seven core aims of the Welsh Government is the importance of allowing
the voices of young people to be heard. This investigation placed pupil voice at its centre …

In partnership with academics from McGill University and community arts partners, a high
school in Montreal faced with significant challenges became an “urban arts school,” offering …

By identifying three main sociologies that characterise broad movements in the field since its
inception, this paper provides a background to considerations of music education from the …