Call for Papers

ESTABLISHING IDENTITY: LGBT STUDIES AND MUSIC EDUCATION
Queer and LGBT studies have become an active line of inquiry in sociology, education, musicology, and women and gender studies since the 1960s. During approximately the same time frame, musicologists examined the complex ways queer identities influenced the people and processes of music making and cultural life. Although numerous disciplines have examined influences of the LGBT community, conventional music education has yet to consider as fully as colleagues in education and musicology relevant research, theory, and practice from a LGBT perspective. Furthermore, within music education, LGBT issues are not visible via special research groups, journals, meetings, or research. So, like many LGBT music educators and students, sexual orientation is hidden from most music education’s professional consciousness–without identity.
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NARRATIVE INQUIRY IN MUSIC EDUCATION (NIME3)
Scholars and researchers pursuing narrative inquiry in music, the arts, and education are invited to participate in the third international conference on Narrative Inquiry in Music Education (NIME3). This, the third NIME conference expands the scope of previous conferences to embrace a multi-disciplinary view of narrative inquiry.
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