3rd Biennial Disability Studies & Music Education Symposium (DSandME ’23)

The theme of the conference is: Disrupting Music Education: Disability as “an ingenious way to live.” DSandME23 will take place from April 27, 2023, through April 29, 2023.

The 3rd Biennial International Disability Studies and Music Education Symposium (DSandME23) explores how disability and lived experiences of disabled persons/persons with disabilities provide opportunities to productively disrupt music pedagogy (e.g., Shakespeare, 2014). Disruption functions as a way to become conscious of ableism within structures and practices in music education (Rathgeber & bell, forthcoming). As Neil Marcus reminds us, disability both necessitates creativity, and is itself a site of creativity (Marcus, 1993; Keifer-Boyd, 2017). Disruption, then, can be an invitation to reconsider, dream, and transform practices, environments, and relationships through disability-centered frameworks (Piepzna-Samarasinha, 2018; Sandahl, 2018).

I will present the adaptive instruments workshops on Friday, April 28, 2023, from 7 to 7:30 PM EST. Note that my presentation will be followed by a performance by composer Molly Joyce from 7:30 to 8 PM EST.

More info and location to come.