Decolonising and Indigenising Music Education

First Peoples Leading Research and Practice

Te Oti Rakena, Clare Hall, Anita Prest, David Johnson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781032265766
• eBook ISBN: 9781003836360
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Ethnomusicology

Centring the voices of Indigenous scholars at the intersection of music and education, this co-edited volume contributes to debates about current colonising music education research and practices, and offers alternative decolonising approaches that support music education imbued with Indigenous perspectives. This unique collection is far-ranging, with contributions from Chile, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Malaysia, India, South Africa, Kenya, and Finland. The authors interrogate and theorise research methodologies, curricula, and practices related to the learning and teaching of music. Providing a meeting place for Indigenous voices and viewpoints from around the globe, this book highlights the imperative that Indigenisation must be Indigenous-led.

The book promotes Indigenous scholars' reconceptualisations of how music education is researched and practised, with an emphasis on the application of decolonial ways of being. The authors provocatively demonstrate the value of power-sharing and eroding the gaze of non-Indigenous populations. Pushing far beyond the concepts of Western aesthetics and world music, this vital collection of scholarship presents music in education as a social and political action, and shows how to enact Indigenising and decolonising practices in a wide range of music education contexts.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of contributors
• Foreword
• Dedication/devotion/acknowledgement
• 1 Introduction: Reflecting on the concepts “decolonising” and “Indigenising”
• 2 Bringing back the voices of our ancestors: Developing and Indigenizing Sámi music education
• 3 Indigenous epistemic resilience in music education: Envisioning Indigenous perspectives in the Mexican classroom
• 4 Te Awa Tupua: Indigenous music analysis for waiata pedagogies
• 5 Heritage on stage: Music education lessons from folk musicians in Finland and Nepal
• 6 Contributions of music education to musical identities of Malaysian secondary school students
• 7 Indigenising music education: The cross-cultural transfer of African Indigenous concepts and practices
• 8 Approaches to ethical engagement between Australian tertiary music institutions and First Nations peoples
• 9 Context and content: Decolonizing education in the instrumental music classroom
• 10 Afterword
• Appendix: ISME Decolonising and Indigenising Music Education (DIME) Special Interest Group
• Index