1st Edition

Empowering Song Music Education from the Margins

By André de Quadros, Emilie Amrein Copyright 2023
180 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

180 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

180 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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,... Read more

Foreword by Bryonn Bain / Preface / PART 1 / 1 Musicking People / 2 Disrupting Practice / 3 Empowering Song / PART 2 / 4 Sounding Bodies / 5 Narrating Selves / 6 Dancing Stories / 7 Painting Dreams / Afterword 1 by Wayland Coleman / Afterword 2 by Truth / Epilogue

Biography

André de Quadros is a professor of music in the Music Education Department at Boston University, where he holds affiliations in African, African American, American and New England, Asian, Jewish, and Muslim studies, at the Center for Antiracist Research, and prison education.

Emilie Amrein is an associate professor of music and the Director of Choral Studies at the University of San Diego where she conducts the USD Choral Scholars and teaches courses on the intersection of music and social justice movements, community music, and changemaking.