by André de Quadros (Author), Emilie Amrein (Author)
Empowering Song: Music Education from the Margins
weaves together subversive pedagogy and theories of resistance with
community music education and choral music, inspiring professionals to
revisit and reconsider their pedagogical practices and approaches. The
authors’ unique insight into some of the most marginalized and
justice-deprived contexts in the world ― prisons, refugee shelters,
detention facilities, and migrant encampments ― breeds evocative and
compassionate enquiry, laying the theoretical groundwork for pedagogical
practices while detailing the many facets of equity-centered, musical
leadership. Presenting an orientation to healing informed by theory, Empowering Song explores
the ways in which music education might take on the challenging
questions of cultural responsiveness within the context of justice,
seeking to change not only how choral music is led but also our
conceptions of why it should matter to all.
