Action, Criticism & Theory for Music Education
January 2016
Geoffrey Baker, Guest Editor
Vincent C. Bates, Editor
Brent C. Talbot, Associate Editor
| Vincent C. Bates, Editor | Foreword: How can music educators address poverty and inequality? | 1 |
| Geoffrey Baker, Guest Editor | Editorial Introduction: El Sistema in critical perspective | 10 |
| Robert Fink | Resurrection Symphony: El Sistema as ideology in Venezuela and Los Angeles | 33 |
| Owen Logan | Lifting the veil: A realist critique of Sistema’s upwardly mobile path | 58 |
| Nicolas Dobson | Hatching plans: Pedagogy and discourse within an El Sistema-inspired program | 89 |
| Anna Bull | El Sistema as a bourgeois social project: Class, gender, and Victorian values | 120 |
| Guillermo Rosabal-Coto | Costa Rica’s SINEM: A perspective from postcolonial institutional ethnography | 154 |
| Anna-Karin Kuuse, Monica Lindgren, and Eva Skåreus | “The feelings have come home to me.” Examining advertising films on the Swedish website of El Sistema | 188 |