Troubling Binaries, Imagining Futurities: Speculative Work in Music Education

• In Event: Disrupting Binaries in Music Education

Abstract

We explore structural feminisms theorized by BIPOC women scholars and unsettle the binaries inherent in music education in order to engage in speculative work toward transformation. Employing this multifaceted theory as a tool toward the speculative not only unsettles current extant structures but also provides an opportunity for reflexivity about taken-for-granted practices. Ultimately, we identify binaries prevalent in music education such as conductor/audience, master-apprentice/autodidactic, formal/informal, literacy/aurality, problematize them, and engage in speculative work toward a nonbinary approach to music education.

Authors

• Saleel Menon, Michigan State University

• Lorenzo Sánchez-Gatt, Boston University

• Juliet Hess, Michigan State University