Dear MDG friends, The MayDay Group was saddened this week to learn of the death of Susan Wharton Conkling. Susan was a Professor of Music Education at the College of Fine Arts, Boston University. She mentored hundreds of music educators, and was a dear friend to many of our members. If you would like to read more about Susan’s […]

The narrative “moment” in music education scholarship came to realisation in February 2006 when the first Narrative Inquiry in Music Education conference was held at Arizona State University. Since then, NIME conference convenings and various publications and presentations grounded in narrative inquiry demonstrate that narrative scholarship has found a place in music education. In a […]

The MayDay Group Colloquium 31, 19-22 June 2019 Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland Music Education as Social, Cultural, and Political Action Colloquium website CALL FOR PROPOSALS As continuation of our engagement with the vital and challenging questions that make up our revised Action Ideals, The MayDay Group invites scholars, music makers, educators, and innovators from […]

Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education is pleased to announce that an article originally published in ACT 2 (2), “Why Ideology is Still Relevant for Critical Thinking in Music Education,”  by Lucy Green, is now also available in Portuguese in the free access journal InterMeio 23 (45). The link to the Portuguese version of the […]