Difference and Division in Music Education

<p><em>Difference and Division in Music Education</em> enriches existing diversity and social justice discourses by considering the responsibility of music education to respond to rising social discord and tensions. Although ‘hate’ is by no means a new concern for policymakers educators or musicians the climate of fast communications divisive politics and intensified encounters with ‘difference’ has framed expressions of hate as a rising social problem to which we cannot afford complacency. This edited volume of ten contributed essays approaches ‘hate’ not as a monstrous aberration but as a product of late modernity entangled within the complex power-relations that frame both governance and agency at the policy institutional and interpersonal levels.</p><p>Schools universities and community organisations have been positioned on the front lines of addressing ‘hate’ and cultivating a healthy society. In recognising that music education is always both inclusive <i>and </i>exclusive this volume interrogates the social norms and values that comprise the ‘common good’ and simultaneously cast certain musics expressions individuals or social groups as different divisive hateful or hated. <i>Difference and Division in Music Education </i>highlights the ethical and political dimensions of teaching and learning music across a number of geographical cultural and educational contexts and through a rich variety of perspectives. </p>