The Oxford Handbook of Social Media and Music Learning

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Janice L. Waldron is Associate Professor of music education at the University of Windsor Windsor Canada with research interests in informal music learning practices online music communities social media and music learning vernacular musics and participatory cultures. Published in Music Education Research The International Journal of Music Education Action Criticism and Theory in Music Education The Journal of Music Education and Technology and The Philosophy of Music Education Review Dr. Waldron also has authored several Oxford Handbook chapters in its Music Education series. She serves on the editorial boards of Action Theory and Criticism in Music Education The International Journal of Music Education The Journal of Music Education and Technology and T.O.P.I.C.S. Stephanie Horsley is Acting Associate Director eLearning at the Centre for Teaching and Learning at Western University Canada where she is also Adjunct Assistant Professor of music education in the Don Wright Faculty of Music. Her research interests include music education policy democratizing access to sites of music education and fringe musical learning spaces. Her latest publications include chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Social Justice and Music Education and Policy and the Political Life of the Music Educator. Her work has been presented at various international conferences. Kari K. Veblen is Professor Emerita of Music Education Western University in Canada where she teaches cultural perspectives music for children and graduate research methods. Thus far her career spans four decades of work as: an elementary public school music teacher community musician faculty member at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point curriculum consultant to orchestras and schools visiting scholar at University of Toronto and research associate at University of Limerick. Veblen has served in numerous professional capacities including the International Society for Music Education board and as co-founder and now board member of the International Journal of Community Music. Author and co-author of five books and 90 peer-reviewed works Veblen's research interests include community music networks lifespan music learning traditional transmission vernacular genres interdisciplinary curriculum musical play and social media and music learning.