Main description:

1) Twelve contributed essays grouped in three parts: Personal Trauma, Societal Trauma, and of the essays Theoretical Foundations.
2) Seeks to explore HOW pedagogy may support students who live with trauma
3) Witnesses the power of music to reach people of all ages in ways that enable them to process traumatic experiences

Contents:

Introduction: Trauma and Music Education (Deborah Bradley and Juliet Hess) / PART I: Theoretical Perspectives / 1. Rethinking "Bad Behavior": A Compassionate Response to "Acting Out" in Music Education (Juliet Hess) / 2. Disrupting "What We Know Too Well:" A Relational Frame for Considering Trauma in Music Education (Shannan L. Hibbard) / 3. Teaching Through Trauma: Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, or Secondary Traumatic Stress? (Tawnya D. Smith) / 4. When Music Haunts Memory: Effects of Trauma on Music Learning (Deborah Bradley) / PART II: Personal Trauma / 5. Grief as Transformation: Teaching and Traumatic Loss (Colleen A. Q. Sears) / 6. Multiple Wounds, Liminality, and Crisis: Exploring Arts-Based Approaches for Trauma, PTSD, and Grief (Donna Emmanuel) / 7. Unlearning Academic Music Education: How Music Education Erases Already-Present Musical Identities (Latasha Thomas-Durrell) / PART III: Societal Trauma / 8. Approaching the "Void of Racism": Traumatic Choral Dialogues (John D. Perkins) / 9. Voices from the Inside: Working with the Hidden Trauma Narratives of Women in Custody (Catherine Birch) / 10. Locations of Trauma: Musical Experience and the Holocaust (Teryl L. Dobbs) / 11. Poetics of Suffering and Acoustic Properties of Endurance in Iran (Nasim Niknafs) / 12. The Objective Is to Flourish: Reimagining the One-to-One Music Teaching Studio (Te Oti Rakena) / Conclusion: On Resilience (Juliet Hess and Deborah Bradley)