Towards a decoionial music education in and from Latin America. Issue 1 (July 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Shifres, Favio; Rosabal-Coto, Guillermo
• Is Part Of: Revista internacional de educación musical. Volume 5:Issue 1(2017)
• Page Start: 85
• Page End: 91
• Publication Date: 2017-07
• Subjects: Modernidad -- decolonialidad -- desobediencia epistémica -- justicia epistémica -- educación musical; Music -- Instruction and study -- Periodicals; Music teachers -- Training of -- Periodicals; Music -- Instruction and study; Music teachers -- Training of; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 780.7
• DOI: 10.12967/RIEM-2017-5-p085-091
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2307-4841

Abstract

This article introduces the special issue about decolonial music education the authors have edited, while presenting some core concepts of the "modernity / coloniality" framework and approaching them on the music education realm. Particularly, it provides some basis of a theoretical perspective to understand instituted forms of music education in Latin America as derived from the modern civilizatory project, Besides, this framework allows to rescue, visualize and understand, as well as imagine and configure, music education experiences that offer resistance to such process and promote epistemological alternatives. As a presentation of this special issue the article also proposes some keys for reading the papers that follow it.