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.

Dedication Contributors Foreword by Lucy Green Chapter 1: Feminism(s) and Music Education: Introduction, Aims, and Overview Marissa Silverman and Nasim Niknafs Chapter 2: Acts of Leading, Learning, and Teaching through Frameworks of Relational Care and Inquiry-based Learning: A View from a Feminism Lens Betty-Anne Younker Chapter 3: Feminist Pedagogy and the Undergraduate Music History Survey in the Time of Curricular Reform: A Reflective Essay Emily Wilbourne Chapter 4: "A Living Force Constantly Creating New Conditions": Feminist Strategies for the Music Theory Classroom Chris Stover Chapter 5: Signal Flows: Feminist Approaches to Audio Education Paths Allison Sokil and Amandine Pras Chapter 6: Musicking Otherwise: Disrupting the Classical Music Paradigm through Personal Testimony, Feminist Frameworks, and Music Therapy Concepts Stephenie Sofield and Jasmine Edwards Chapter 7: An Ecofeminist Vision of Music Education: Resisting the Intertwining Logics of Domination Tawnya Smith Chapter 8: Patriarchy, Peer Review, and the Pretense of Solo Authorship Gareth Dylan Smith Chapter 9: Femme Pedagogy as Liberatory Praxis in the Music Teacher-education Classroom Gabrielle Smith Chapter 10: Feminist Aims for Music Education: Love is an (the) Answer Marissa Silverman Chapter 11: Feminist Pedagogies in the Elementary General Music Classroom Lucas Schoppe Chapter 12: Psychological Health of Professors: Transforming University Culture Valerie Peters with Teryl L. Dobbs, Janet R. Barrett, and Maud Hickey Chapter 13: I Ain't Gonna Study War No More: The Cost of Feminist (Related) Scholarship in Music Education Patricia O'Toole and Josh Palkki Chapter 14: Stand with Us: Feminist Solidarity in Higher Music Education Nasim Niknafs Chapter 15: Approaches to the Women's Music Movement, 1972-2022: Resources for Students and Educators Bonnie Morris Chapter 16: An Analysis of Existing Discrepancies in Feminist Theories and Their Application in Music Education in Higher Education Saghar Moghadamfar Chapter 17: Feminism is the Struggle: My Memories Roberta Lamb Chapter 18: Utopia, Music Education, and the Female Imagination Alexandra Kertz-Welzel Chapter 19: Boundary Work as Feminist Work: Deliberations on the Growth and Expansion of the Nordic Field of Music Education Research Sidsel Karlsen Chapter 20: Black Elegy: Middle School Models for Studying the Life of Florence Mills Abimbola Cole Kai-Lewis Chapter 21: From Within a Woman's Heart: Community-music Events as an Approach to Creating Equal Integration Opportunities for Refugee Women in Limerick, Ireland Hala Jaber Chapter 22: Women, LGBTQ Individuals, and Music Education in Japan: From Male-Centered Music Education to Musical Activities That Respect Gender and Sexual Diversity Mitsuko Isoda Chapter 23: Feminist Organizations Promoting Women in Music Education in the United States Sondra Wieland Howe Chapter 24: Reimagining Music Education in the United Kingdom using Black Feminist Thought Nathan Holder Chapter 25: Gender, Education, and Creativity through Music Practices in China Wai-Chung Ho Chapter 26: The Imperative of Intersectionality in Feminist Work Juliet Hess Chapter 27: Indigenous Feminisms and Music Education Missy Haynes and Anita Prest Chapter 28: Dialectics of Freedom: Promiscuous Black Feminism and Music Education Elizabeth Gould Chapter 29: Conducting with Care: A Feminist Approach to Teaching Orchestra in Schools Susan A. Davis Chapter 30: White Choir Director Whitney Cheairs Covalle Chapter 31: Pre-Service Music Teacher Education: Learning with Gaga Feminism Kelly Bylica and Karin Hendricks Chapter 32: Musicking Nurture: Uplift and Accuracy June Boyce-Tillman Chapter 33: Performative Gender and Subversive Music Education: A Conversation from an Authoritarian Country Ebru Tuncer Boon Chapter 34: Interrogating the Paradoxes of Female "Empowerment" in Women's Chorus Cara Bernard Chapter 35: Dreaming Disability Musical Futurities: A Feminist Framework adam patrick bell and Molly Joyce Chapter 36: Is that allowed? The Gender Factor in Music Education, Practice, and Management in Kenya Emily Achieng' Akuno Chapter 37: The Voices of Music Educators on the Margins: A Scoping Review Carlos R. Abril and Wendy Gunther Index