A Jazz Funeral in Music Education
This chapter presents a jazz funeral in music education. Placed in the historical context of New Orleans brass bands and contemporary second line parades, the chapter stands as critique of so-called social justice practices in music education that would threaten to swamp the profession with the impersonal voice of scholarly reason expressed in terms of disregard disguised as benevolence. The author-who-is-not-one (here) attempts an experiment deploying the literary “apostrophe” to subvert the gravity of scholarly discourse in an effort to do something in response to unreasonable worlds of social injustice that define the very profession. Its potentialities of success to actualize difference in ways that might materially do something are both contingent and precarious, inasmuch as they are solely a function of reading and answering.