Music education has historically had a tense relationship with social justice. One the one hand, educators concerned with music practices have long preoccupied themselves with ideas of open participation and the potentially transformative capacity that musical interaction fosters. On the other hand, they have often done so while promoting and privileging a particular set of musical practices, traditions, and forms of musical knowledge, which has in turn alienated and even excluded many children ...

•  Preface
•  Why Social Justice and Music Education?
•  Editors
•  Section I. Understanding Social Justice in Music Education Conceptually, Historically, and Politically
•  Introduction-From Pioneers to New Frameworks. Section Editor, Paul Woodford
•  1. Intersecting Social Justices and Music Education
•  Estelle Jorgensen, Indiana University, United States
•  2. Understanding Social Justice from the Perspective of Music Education History
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