Overview

In a time in which too many musicians, teachers, and students experience exploitation and overwork, a tyranny of ideologies that often opposes their values and leaves them feeling powerless, animosity toward and disrespect of education, women, and people of color, a digital environment that spreads misinformation, and an increasingly polarized public, Music Education Sins Redeemed offers a vision of humane music education that points toward freedom and common good. Revisiting her previous analysis of values in music education, author Estelle R. Jorgensen describes seven sins – sloth, exclusion, forgetting, rage, discomfort, liberalism, and conservatism – to examine the notion of evil in contemporary music education and its possible redemption. With this new analysis, Music Education Sins Redeemed stands as an invitation to take a broad view of the values grounding ideas and practices in music education – as well as a warning to avoid letting views become too narrow. Exemplifying an approach whereby educators can rethink what counts as values, defend their views, and determine the implications for music education policy and practice, this book is essential reading for music educators. Through the metaphors of ""sin"" and ""redemption,"" Music Education Sins Redeemed examines those qualities that many well-meaning music teachers regard as evil to find the implicit values each can afford for a vision of education that is humane, generous, transformative, and liberatory.

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""This is an excellent and timely book drawing on Estelle Jorgensen's considerable wisdom and writing in this area over the long and productive life as a philosopher of music education. When many music education courses consist mostly of how to teach music, over the years of her writing and lecturing, she has drawn attention to the more fundamental question of 'why' and alerted educationalists to the values underpinning methods and practicalities. . . . This book is amazingly interdisciplinary and cross disciplinary, contextualizing music education politically and socially.""—June Boyce-Tillman, author of Experiencing Music – Restoring the Spiritual: Music as Wellbeing ""This book provides a context not available in other philosophical scholarship. Aligning the historical background that supports the way people consider current constructs is unique to the literature and will be valued in courses that address theories of teaching and learning.""—Frederick Burrack, Kansas State University

""This is an excellent and timely book drawing on Estelle Jorgensen's considerable wisdom and writing in this area over the long and productive life as a philosopher of music education. When many music education courses consist mostly of how to teach music, over the years of her writing and lecturing, she has drawn attention to the more fundamental question of 'why' and alerted educationalists to the values underpinning methods and practicalities. . . . This book is amazingly interdisciplinary and cross disciplinary, contextualizing music education politically and socially.""—June Boyce-Tillman, author of Experiencing Music – Restoring the Spiritual: Music as Wellbeing ""This book provides a context not available in other philosophical scholarship. Aligning the historical background that supports the way people consider current constructs is unique to the literature and will be valued in courses that address theories of teaching and learning.""—Frederick Burrack, Kansas State University

Author Information

Estelle R. Jorgensen is Professor Emerita of Music Education at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She is author of numerous titles, most recently Values and Music Education. She is editor (with Iris M. Yob) of Humane Music Education for the Common Good.

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