Handbook Preface ; Acknowledgments ; External referees ; Section 1: Special Abilities, Special Needs ; Section Editor: Adam Ockelford ; Chapter 1: Commentary: Special abilities, special needs ; Adam Ockelford ; Chapter 2: Mapping musical development in learners with the most complex needs: The Sounds of Intent project ; Adam Ockelford and Graham Welch ; Chapter 3: Exceptional musical abilities: Musical prodigies ; Gary E. McPherson and Andreas C. Lehmann ; Chapter 4: A fresh look at music therapy in Special Education ; Katrina McFerran and Cochavit Elefant ; Chapter 5: Inclusive music classrooms and programs ; Judith A. Jellison ; Chapter 6: Preparing for the future: Music students with Special Education needs in school and community life ; Alice-Ann Darrow and Mary S. Adamek ; Section 2: Music in the Community ; Section Editor: David Elliott ; Chapter 7: Commentary: Music in the community ; David J. Elliott ; Chapter 8: The community within community music ; Lee Higgins ; Chapter 9: Community music and social capital ; Patrick M. Jones and Thomas W. Langston ; Chapter 10: Community music therapy ; Kenneth Aigen ; Chapter 11: Community music and social justice: Reclaiming love ; Marissa Silverman ; Chapter 12: Sonic hospitality: Migration, community and music ; Helen Phelan ; Chapter 13: At-risk youth: Music-making as a means to promote positive relationships ; Mary L. Cohen, Laya Silber , Andrea Sangiorgio and Valentina Iadeluca ; Chapter 14: Fast forward: Emerging trends in community music ; Kari K. Veblen and Janice L. Waldron ; Section 3: Adult Learning Within A Lifespan Context ; Section Editors: David E. Myers and Chelcy L. Bowles ; Chapter 15: Commentary: Adult learning within a lifespan context ; David E. Myers ; Chapter 16: Elders and music: Empowering learning, valuing life experience, and considering the needs of aging adult learners ; William M. Dabback and David S. Smith ; Chapter 17: Adult music learning in formal, nonformal, and informal contexts ; Kari K. Veblen ; Chapter 18: Music teacher education: Crossing generational borders ; Jody L. Kerchner and Carlos R. Abril ; Chapter 19: The role of higher education in fostering musically engaged adults ; Chelcy L. Bowles and Janet L. Jensen ; Chapter 20: Lifelong learning for professional musicians ; Rineke Smilde ; Chapter 21: An international perspective on music education for adults ; John Drummond ; Section 4: Musical Creativity as Practice ; Section Editor: Pam Burnard ; Chapter 22: Commentary: Musical creativity as practice ; Pamela Burnard ; Chapter 23: Empathy and creativity in group musical practices: Towards a concept of empathic creativity ; Ian Cross, Felicity Laurence, Tal-Chen Rabinowitch ; Chapter 24: Intercultural tensions and creativity in music ; Eva Saether with Alagi Mbye and Reza Shayesteh ; Chapter 25: Communal creativity as socio-musical practice ; Eleni Lapidaki, Rokus de Groot and Petros Stagkos ; Chapter 26 Assessing creativity in music: International perspectives and practices ; Samuel Leong, Pamela Burnard, Neryl Jeanneret, Bo Wah Leung, Carole Waugh ; Chapter 27: Creativity in partnership practices ; Bernadette D. Colley, Randi Margrethe Eidsaa, Ailbhe Kenny and Bo Wah Leung ; Section 5: Music Learning and Teaching Through Technology ; Section Editor: Evangelos Himonides ; Chapter 28: Commentary: Music learning and teaching through technology ; Evangelos Himonides ; Chapter 29: The misunderstanding of music-technology-education: A meta perspective ; Evangelos Himonides ; Chapter 30: Technology and the educator ; Ross Purves ; Chapter 31: The student prince: Music-making with technology ; Andrew King ; Chapter 32: Driving forward technology's imprint on music education ; Jonathan Savage ; Section 6: Media, Music and Education ; Section Editor: Matthew Thibeault ; Chapter 33: Commentary: Media, music and education ; Matthew D. Thibeault ; Chapter 34: Music education in the postperformance world ; Matthew D. Thibeault ; Chapter 35: Let's Play! Learning music through video games and virtual worlds ; Evan S. Tobias ; Chapter 36: Collaborative digital media performance with generative music systems ; Andrew R. Brown and Steven C. Dillon ; Chapter 37: Music learning and new media in virtual and online environments ; S. Alex Ruthmann and David G. Hebert ; Section 7: Critical Reflections and Future Action ; Section Editor: Gary McPherson and Graham Welch ; Chapter 38: Commentary: Critical reflections and future action ; Gary E. McPherson and Graham F. Welch ; Chapter 39: Politics, policy and music education ; Hal Abeles ; Chapter 40: Instrumental teachers and their students: Who's in the driving seat? ; Nick Beach ; Chapter 41: University professors and the entrepreneurial spirit ; Liora Bresler ; Chapter 42: Pride and professionalism in music education ; Richard Colwell ; Chapter 43: Pondering the grand experiment in public music education ; Robert A. Cutietta ; Chapter 44: Music education and some of its sub-fields: Thoughts about future priorities ; Lucy Green ; Chapter 45: Music education - An unanswered question ; Wilfried Gruhn ; Chapter 46: Improving primary teaching - Minding the gap ; Sarah Hennessy ; Chapter 47: International music education: Setting up a global information system ; Liane Hentschke ; Chapter 48: The responsibility of research in defining the profession of music education ; Christopher M. Johnson ; Chapter 49: Constructing communities of scholarship in music education ; Estelle R. Jorgensen ; Chapter 50: Internationalising music education ; Andreas C. Lehmann ; Chapter 51: Emotion in music education ; Richard Letts ; Chapter 52: Music education from a slightly outside perspective ; Hakan Lundstrom ; Chapter 53: Research issues in personal music identification ; Cliff Madsen ; Chapter 54: Preparation, perseverance, and performance in music: Views from a program of educational psychology research ; Andrew J. Martin ; Chapter 55: Music therapy in schools: An expansion of traditional practice ; Katrina McFerran ; Chapter 56: Embracing new digital technologies - Now and into the future ; Bradley Merrick ; Chapter 57: Challenges for research and practices of music education ; Bengt Olsson ; Chapter 58: All theoried up and nowhere to go ; Bennett Reimer ; Chapter 59: Make research, not war: Methodologies and music education research ; Wendy L. Sims ; Chapter 60: The preparation of music teacher educators: A critical link ; David J. Teachout ; Chapter 61: Music and the arts: As ubiquitous and fundamental as the air we breathe ; Rena Upitis ; Chapter 62: There is nothing complex about a correlation coefficient ; Peter R. Webster ; Chapter 63: Dewey's bastards: Music, meaning, and politics ; Paul Woodford