On Mediated Qualitative Scholarship and Marginalized Voices in Music Education

Abstract

This chapter addresses two interrelated questions concerning some of the characteristic features that should exemplify mediated qualitative scholarship in music education and ways in which mediated qualitative scholarship can enable marginalized voices in music education to be heard. Mediated scholarship is broadly defined as scholarship undertaken and/or disseminated through the arts and contemporary media. The term "marginalized voices" refers to those subjects, perspectives, media, approaches, objectives, and modes of dissemination that are not valued, studied, or accounted for in music education research. Drawing on two examples of work utilizing film and video and published as chapters in this book, I examine the possibilities and challenges for mediated qualitative scholarship in music education that highlights the voices of those not otherwise heard.