In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world causing physical, emotional, economic, and social upheaval in every part of the globe. It also catalyzed a renewed interrogation, by music education faculty in higher education, of philosophies and practices that had long gone unexamined.Music Education on the Verge: Stories of Pandemic Teaching and Transformative Change is a collection of narratives by music teacher-educators describing how they responded to the disruption of the...

Gender and sexuality are not simply matters of human classification; rather, they are complex systems of individual identity that remain unfixed and mobile, unfolding over time as identities that are socially constructed rather than biologically codified. Historically, gender (and sexual identity) have functioned as a means to understanding social relationships, regulating behavior, and categorizing humans. Gender binaries and heteronormativity have served as powerful social structures to ...