Empowering Song: Music Education from the Margins

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.