Growing Donkey Ears: The Animal Politics of Music Education

Autor/inn/en	Koopal, Wiebe; Vlieghe, Joris; De Baets, Thomas
Titel	Growing Donkey Ears: The Animal Politics of Music Education
Quelle	In: Ethics and Education, 17 (2022) 1, S.44-58 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Koopal, Wiebe)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1744-9642
DOI	10.1080/17449642.2021.2015127
Schlagwörter	Music Education; Public Education; Humanization; Animals; Mythology; Humanistic Education; Politics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Musikerziehung; Öffentliche Erziehung; Humanisierung; Animal; Tier; Tiere; Mythologie; Humanistische Bildung; Politik
Abstract	This article problematizes the view that music education is primarily justified on account of its uniquely "humanizing" influence. Not only does this general humanist argument clearly fail to convince policy-makers to actually revalidate public music education, but moreover it often seems to rest on highly questionable premises. Without contesting the idea itself that music education "can" be a humanizing agency, we will try to show that such humanization cannot be achieved without acknowledging music's "inhuman," "animal" forces. While first this paradox is elaborated through a philosophical reading of the Ancient myth of Midas's donkey ears, a second part will expand on its implications for the "political" bearing of music's contemporary public-educational (ir)relevance. Ultimately, we claim that by paying closer attention to the ways in which music allows animal 'nonsense' to disrupt processes of collective human sense-making, we can start thinking of practices of music education that might truly engender a renewed sense of humanity. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01