This course analyzes music and music education practices, processes, content, and contexts in relationship to issues currently impacting the profession generally and specifically. Using multiple lenses, including critical, feminist, queer and queer of colour critique, we will examine how music and music education research literature, pedagogical approaches, and curricular materials address emergent and persistent musical, educational, and societal concerns particularly as they intersect with and are informed by gender, sexuality, race, and class.