Music Education Sins Redeemed

“This is an excellent and timely book drawing on Estelle Jorgensen’s considerable wisdom and writing in this area over the long and productive life as a philosopher of music education. When many music education courses consist mostly of how to teach music, over the years of her writing and lecturing, she has drawn attention to the more fundamental question of ‘why’ and alerted educationalists to the values underpinning methods and practicalities… . This book is amazingly interdisciplinary and cross disciplinary, contextualizing music education politically and socially.“—June Boyce-Tillman, author of Experiencing Music – Restoring the Spiritual: Music as Wellbeing“This book provides a context not available in other philosophical scholarship. Aligning the historical background that supports the way people consider current constructs is unique to the literature and will be valued in courses that address theories of teaching and learning.“—Frederick Burrack, Kansas State University

Estelle R. Jorgensen is Professor Emerita of Music Education at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She is author of numerous titles, most recently Values and Music Education. She is editor (with Iris M. Yob) of Humane Music Education for the Common Good.