Full Description
The arts, and particularly music, are well-known agents for social change. They can empower, transform, or question. They can be a mirror of society's current state and a means of transformation. They are often the last refuge when all attempts at social change have failed. But are the arts able to live up to these expectations? Can music education cause social change?
Rethinking Music Education and Social Change offers timely answers to these questions. It presents an imaginative, yet critical approach. At once optimistic and realistic, the book asseses music education's relation to social change and offers a new vision for music education as utopian theory and practice. As an important topic in sociology and political science, utopia offers a new tradition of thinking and a scholarly foundation for music education's relation to social change.
Contents
Preface
1 Introduction
2 The arts and social change
2.1 What is social change?
2.2 The social impact of the arts
2.3 Music education and social change
3 The power of utopian thinking
3.1 What is utopia?
3.2 Political thinking and utopia
3.3 The arts and utopia
4 Transforming society
4.1 The sociology of social change
4.2 The politics of change
4.3 The utopian power of education
5 Music education and utopia
5.1 Utopia as method in music education
5.2 Music education as utopian theory and practice
5.2.1 Politically and socially responsive
music education
5.2.2 Esthetic music education
5.3 Challenges of music education, social change and utopia
6 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
