1st Edition

Music and Interculturalism Perspectives in Education, Community and Creative Practice

Edited By Elaine King, Simon Desbruslais Copyright 2026
182 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

182 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume showcases contemporary research about interculturalism and music through exposing critical perspectives about real-world projects spanning different corners of the globe, including China, Germany, Iran, Japan, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa regions, North India, Mexico, Taiwan, the UK and the USA. Its aim is twofold: first, to highlight current trends in thinking... Read more

Preface, Understanding Interculturalism in Music Education, Community and Creative Practice, Inside Out Perspectives of Music and Culture in Education: Towards Cultural Understanding, Transculturation, Intercultural Competency and Globalisation, Intercultural Teaching in the Chinese WhispersTM Project, A British Rock Band in Taiwan: Analysing Concert Interaction as Intercultural Conversation, Reflections on the Linguistic Revitalisation Programme Conducted With the Intercultural Orchestra and Choir of León (OCIL), Mexico, The Annual Event Series of the Centre for Intercultural Music in Kassel, Germany: Aims, Processes, Challenges, Power, Agency, Curation: Reframing Experimental Sound Production in Berlin, Germany, Unmuting the ‘Other’: Constructions and Constrictions Within an Iranian Dastgāh and Western Art Music Discourse, Liminality in Cross-Cultural Composition, Epilogue: Now and Next for Interculturalism in Music Education, Community and Creative Practice

Biography

Elaine King is Reader in Music at the University of Hull, UK. She is a performer and musicologist with research interests in performance studies, music psychology, music theory and analysis.

 

Simon Desbruslais is an acclaimed British trumpet soloist and musicologist. He was educated at King’s College London, the Royal College of Music and Christ Church, Oxford.