National Identity, Official Culture and Music Education in Turkey

This symposium introduces new ideas and concepts from the forthcoming Routledge Handbook to the Sociology of Music Education. The field of the sociology of music education has experienced and continues to experience rapid and global development. It could be argued that this handbook marks its coming of age. The handbook is dedicated to the exclusive and explicit application of sociological constructs and theories to issues such as globalization, immigration, post-colonialism, inter-generational musicking, socialization, inclusion, exclusion, hegemony, symbolic violence, and popular culture. Contexts range from formal compulsory schooling to non-formal communal environments to informal music making and listening. The symposium will be organized in two panels. Each panel will be organized around a theme to which presenters will contribute with discussion of the key concepts from their work. Following each panel there will be a twenty-minute discussion period to which audience and panellists may contribute.