Feminism as Critique in Philosophy of Music Education

the discussion of philosophy of music education and examine the view of feminism as critique, although because this is about music education and philosophy, those concepts cannot remain discrete or unrelated to the initial discussion of feminism as critique. Notwithstanding the contemporary women's movement been in progress over twenty years and has led to a significant restructuring of our theoretical tradition from a feminist perspective,1 in most disciplines, this restructuring is only recent within musicology,2 and nascent within music education. Long after the national media named feminism the new f-word and proclaimed a postfeminist era, we have yet to broach the subject as music educators. Perhaps we have been cloistered in our practice rooms a bit too long. Considering the impact of such otherworldliness on our profession, it undoubtedly is necessary to define feminism for this paper. Defining Feminism is followed by an examination through feminism of aesthetic and praxial philosophies of music education, constituting the major section of the paper, Speaking Philosophy of Music Education. I conclude this essay on feminism as critique with some musings on the possibilities for feminist theorizing in music education in a section called, Feminist Mus(ic)ing: A Fiction-Theory.