Rethinking Music Education and Social Change

The arts and particularly music are well-known agents for social change. They can empower transform or question. They can be a mirror of society's current state and a means of transformation. They are often the last refuge when all attempts at social change have failed. But are the arts<br>able to live up to these expectations? Can music education cause social change? <p/><em>Rethinking Music Education and Social Change</em> offers timely answers to these questions. It presents an imaginative yet critical approach. At once optimistic and realistic the book asseses music education's relation to social change and offers a new vision for music education as utopian theory and<br>practice. As an important topic in sociology and political science utopia offers a new tradition of thinking and a scholarly foundation for music education's relation to social change.<br>