Philosophy of Music Education Challenged: Heideggerian Inspirations, 2015 Music, Education and Personal Development Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education Series, Vol. 15

Introduction: An Ontological Turn in the Field of Music and Music Education.- Part I Technical Rationality and Nihilism.- 1. Musings of Heidegger: Arts Education and the Mall as a ‘debased’ (Dreyfus) work of Art.- 2. The Intrinsic Value of Musical Experience. A Rethinking: Why and How?.- 3. Ways of Revealing: Music Education Responses to Music Technology.- 4. Towards an Ontological Turn in Music Education with Heidegger’s Philosophy of being and his Notion of Releasement.- Part II Music and Being.- 5. Body – Music – Being: Making Music as Bodily Being in the World.- 6. Music as Art – Art as Being – Being as Music: A Philosophical Investigation into how Music Education can Embrace a Work of Art Based on Heidegger’s Thinking.- Part III Musical Experience.- 7. Music, Truth and Belonging: Listening with Heidegger.- 8. The Phenomenology of Music: Implications for Teenage Identities and Music Education.- 9. Music Education as a Dialogue between the Outer and the Inner: A Jazz Pedagogue’s Philosophy of Music Education.- 10. Pendulum Dialogues and the Re-enchantment of the World.- Part IV Bildung and Truth.- 11. Revisiting the Cave: Heidegger’s Reinterpretation of Plato’s Allegory with Reference to Music Education.- 12. From Heidegger to Dufrenne and Back: Bildung Beyond Subject and Object in Art Experience.- 13. Practice as Self-exploration.- 14. Art and ‘Truth’: Heidegger’s Ontology in Light of Ernst Bloch’s Philosophy of Hope and Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Play-metaphor. Three Impulses for a New Perspective of Musical Bildung.