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Original Articles

Disability, music education and the epistemology of interdisciplinarity

Pages 119-132 | Received 20 Oct 2008, Accepted 27 Oct 2008, Published online: 04 Feb 2009
 

Abstract

A fully realized disability studies (DS) of music is interdisciplinary, qualitative and accessible through common discourse, without jargon, disciplinary codes, or numerology. It embraces DS’s social model theory, where ‘disability’ is the social construction of ‘impairment,’ analogous to the relationship between ‘gender’ and ‘sex.’ The interdisciplinary transcendence of forms and norms of individual fields is a scholarly/political stance consistent with liberatory DS goals. The recent emergence of music DS, with few precedents from traditional musicology/theory, has mandated greater interdisciplinarity, employing the full range of social and somatic scholarship, as well as popular culture references. The most critical issues in music DS are in education, beyond music‐specific concerns, and best expressed qualitatively as individual and group narratives. The often covertly quantitative nature of music theory is outed as oppressive to people with disabilities and contrasted with the liberatory power of sharing stories.

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