ABSTRACT

The global COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted music education across the world, resulting in radical changes to the field of practice, accelerating a ‘turn’ toward online digital musical experiences. This digital ‘turn’ is likely to influence the future of music education in a variety of complex and inter-connected ways. In this special issue, we explore the implications of such a ‘turn’ for music educators and their students / participants, and highlight some of the ways in which music researchers and educators have responded to the crisis. We hope these narratives will help illuminate some of the ways in which music education might recover its equilibrium, as well as make a contribution more generally to the complex business of human recovery in a post-COVID world.

摘要

全球COVID-19大流行已经破坏了世界各地的音乐教育，导致实践领域发生了根本性变化，加速了向在线数字音乐体验的“转变”。这种数字化的“转变”可能以多种复杂且相互联系的方式影响音乐教育的未来。在本期特刊中，我们探讨了这种“转折”对音乐教育者及其学生/参与者的影响，并重点介绍了音乐研究者和教育者应对危机的一些方式。我们希望这些叙述将有助于阐明音乐教育可能恢复平衡的一些方式，并为后COVID后世界中人类康复的复杂业务做出更广泛的贡献。