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This book is the product of a long journey by a company of academics and practitioners sharing a common interest, entitled the Spirituality and Music Education Group (SAME). It is a product of the various meetings of this group and represents a fascinating array of lenses through which to examine the many and complex strands within spirituality.

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This book is the product of a long journey by a company of academics and practitioners sharing a common interest, titled the Spirituality and Music Education Group (SAME). It started at the International Society for Music Education Conference in Bologna in 2008, with its first gathering in Birmingham in 2010. This book is a product of the various meetings of this group. Since the group formed, the notion of spirituality has been struggling to find a way through the dominant ideology of secularisation in the West to a place in a post-secularising world.

This book concentrates on examining this issue from the position of music educators on three continents. This process can be defined as both separate from as well as part of the dominant Christian and humanist traditions, whatever is appropriate in a particular culture. The book represents a fascinating array of lenses through which to examine the many and complex strands within the concept of spirituality.

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CONTENTS: June Boyce-Tillman: Shovelling Fog: Introducing Spirituality - Liesl van der Merwe/John Habron: A Conceptual Model of Spirituality in Music Education - Marie McCarthy: Awakening to the Spiritual in Children´s Development: Contemplating Anew the Landscapes of Music Education - Matthew Sansom: Under the Aspect of Eternity: A Perennialist Interpretation of Free Improvisational Aesthetics and Pedagogy - Susan Quindag: Seeking Oneness: Exploring a Relational Ontology of Spiritual Music - Frank Heuser: Music Education and Spirituality: Ethical Concerns and Responsibilities from a US Perspective - Anchen Froneman: Embodiment as Locus of Aesthetic and Spiritual Musical Experience - Gerda Pretorius: Spirituality in Parent-Infant Musical Communication: An Integrative Literature Review - Hetta Potgieter: "The Cathedral without a Roof": A Search for Metaphorical Meaning - Grant Nthala: The Melting Pot of Cultural and Religious Boundaries: Expressions of Spirituality and Musicality at a Malawian HIV/AIDS Support Group - Eurika Jansen van Vuuren: Arts Championships: Nurturing Spiritual Musical Experiences or Cultivating Heartless Performance? - Phiwe Ndodana Makaula: The Manifestation of the Philosophy of Ubuntu on Bhaca Music and Social Structure - Arvydas Girdzijauskas: Different Signs of Spirituality Following Different Types of Music Education - Diana Harris: Music in its Cultural Context: The Importance of Understanding the Spiritual Significance of the Music We Teach.

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Dr June Boyce-Tillman is a pioneer. It is due to her inspiration and boundless energies that an important new and ground-breaking compendium has been assembled. This rich and diverse collection of contributions eloquently challenges the long-held opinion that there are some issues about which we cannot speak. The articles cross cultural boundaries and provide ample and carefully researched evidence of both theory and practice, presented in approachable language, and opening new avenues of enquiry to enrich music education. - GEORGE ODAM, Emeritus Professor Bath Spa University, Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama

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