Musicianship -- No One True Way: Music Education Without Redemptive Truth* -- Critically Reflective Musicianship -- Culture and Society -- Re-thinking “Music” in the Context of Education -- Musicianship, Musical Identity, and Meaning as Embodied Practice -- Leadership -- Dis-Orientations of Desire: Music Education Queer -- Pragmatism, Music's Import, and Music Teachers as Change Agents -- Institutions -- Listening for Whiteness: Hearing Racial Politics in Undergraduate School Music -- My Music, Their Music, and the Irrelevance of Music Education -- Interdisciplinarity -- Breaking Through Our Own Barriers -- Becoming Intellectually Fearless -- Research and Theory -- An Expanded Research Agenda for Music Education -- Ecological Validity and Impact: Key Challenges for Music Education Research -- Curriculum -- Curriculum as Professional Action -- Placing Curriculum in Music -- Conclusion: An End Is a Beginning.

Based on topics that frame the debate about the future of professional music education, this book explores the issues that music teachers must confront in a rapidly shifting educational landscape. The book aims to challenge thought and change minds. It presents a star cast of internationally prominent thinkers in and beyond music education. These thinkers deliberately challenge many time-worn traditions in music education with regard to musicianship, culture and society, leadership, institutions, interdisciplinarity, research and theory, and curriculum. This is the first book to confront these issues in this way. This unique book has emerged from fifteen years of international dialog by The MayDay Group, an organization of more than 250 music educators from over 20 countries who meet yearly to confront issues in music teaching and learning.