This volume challenges readers to think about what music means in contemporary society, and how music education can remain culturally relevant in the new millennium.

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• A collection of thought-provoking philosophical perspectives on music education.
  
• Explores the changing ways in which music is being produced, disseminated and received.
  
• Considers how current phenomena such as the commoditization of music, the use of new technologies, and access to hybrid music forms, relate to music education.
  
• Covers themes such as pragmatism, performativity, cultural identity, emotion, autonomy and globalization.
  
• Asks how music teaching and learning can remain culturally relevant.