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- Title
ACTing for Change: An Editorial Introduction to ACT 14.1.
- Authors
Bates, Vincent C.
- Abstract
Dystopian fiction runs parallel to critical theory. In this editorial, I explore how the apotropaic function of the former could also apply to the latter, particularly as it relates to publishing in ACT. ACTions for change (articles published in ACT) can serve to reinforce the status quo, when critique is so far outside the mainstream and/or so strident that it is easily dismissed as nonsensical, thereby reifying "common sense" beliefs about music teaching and learning. ACT authors may avoid (and many arguably have avoided) these apotropaic potentialities by recognizing their own reliance on and complicity in the field they wish to critique, by working to re-contextualize and mediate technical rational practices, and by continuously emphasizing the ethical dimensions of music teaching and learning.
- Subjects
DYSTOPIAS in literature; CRITICAL theory; TALISMANS; PUBLISHED articles; MUSIC education
- Publication
Action, Criticism & Theory for Music Education, 2015, Vol 14, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1545-4517
- Publication type
Article