The Oxford Handbook of Feminism and Music Education

The Oxford Handbook of Feminism and Music Education brings together a wide range of international scholars, practicing music teachers and educators, policymakers, and community musicians to conceptualize, analyze, and critique the personal, social, cultural, political, ethical, and therapeutic practices and problems in music education through feminist perspectives. The book offers global critical perspectives on a wide range of conceptual and practical issues in music education as they apply to various forms of feminist perspectives in music teaching and learning within schools and communities.
The central aims of this volume are to engage with readers' understandings of and critical thinking about feminist perspectives on the problems, opportunities, and "spaces and places" that music educators and community music facilitators encounter, and to elucidate the concepts and practical strategies they employ to improve various aspects of music teaching and learning around the world through feminist lenses. This book helps current and future music educators, community music facilitators, arts and music activists, and solidarity workers to understand the many varieties and potentials of music teaching and learning, as described by the world-renowned scholars and practitioners in this book. It further invites readers to consider how traditional forms of musical pedagogies can be transformed in ways that will make them more mindful of and empathetic toward the personal and musical aims and desires of music students, musicians, and musical communities and collectives. This book will be of interest to teachers, scholars, administrators, advocates, and solidarity workers who wish to redefine, refine, and redesign music teaching and learning practices.

Marissa Silverman is Professor of Music and Coordinator of Music Education at the John J. Cali School of Music, Montclair State University, NJ. A Fulbright Scholar, her research interests include philosophy of music education, music and social justice, interdisciplinary education, community music, and ethics.
Nasim Niknafs is Associate Professor of Music Education at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto where she also serves as the Associate Dean, Research and Coordinator of Music Education. Her interdisciplinary research concerns philosophy and cultural politics of contemporary music education intersecting with collective action, anarchism, popular music and improvisation. Niknafs holds degrees from Northwestern University, New York University, Kingston University, London, and University of Art, Tehran.

- 07/04/2025