The ubiquity of death and endings surrounding our day-to-day in the wake of not only a global pandemic, but also dominant international policies of late capitalism that have accelerated the climate crisis and paved the way for the increased power of populist ideologies is the hotbed of debate across academic disciplines including philosophy, international affairs, political science, sociology, and public health among others. This graduate seminar will explore some of this scholarship as it intersects with music, education, and pedagogy. Central to the seminar will be questions surrounding how different institutional, cultural, and musical practices and communities govern, grapple or come to terms with literal and metaphorical dead (racialized, gendered, aged, differently abled) bodies, dying educational and cultural programs and geographies, and disappearing memories. Some themes to be discussed are: necropolitics, hauntology, nostalgia, grief, and trauma-informed pedagogies.