Wherein Apocalypse: The Time Being in Music Education

Nasim Niknafs
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In this editorial essay, I bring forth the Derridian concept of time and its spectral relationship to music education to do the labour of the anti- work in the field. I ask three questions specifically: what does time have to do with anti-racist, anti-fascist, and anti-discriminatory work? What does time have to do with music education? And does time, and in this case, the contemporary historical moment, make the field of music education obsolete or all the more necessary? To put it differently and bluntly, what is the fate of music education? Considering the field’s place in the current historical moment, I ponder the field from an alternate position: that music education is not good for anything, nor is it transformative, or an agent of social change. By taking that burden away and taking itself less seriously, one is faced with a slate uninhibited by righteous urgency without yielding to a felt experience of time constraint, and instead can finally breathe and be. It is in this temporal space of being and “out-of-jointness of time” that the authors of this special issue enter and leave their mark and do the anti- work, not because it is necessary or relevant or timely, but because they feel committed to doing this work out of a felt sense of collective responsibility. I invite the readers to pause, take a moment of hesitation, and contemplate the questions posed in this essay and by the authors of this special issue, which leave behind the convention of crisis-management or the urgency-oriented actions and reactive responses to human and environmental crises. I conclude that perhaps it is time to shift from the better world discursive practices to a let’s “unleash overflowing” constancy.
其中启示:音乐教育的时代性
在这篇社论文章中,我提出了德里安的时间概念及其与音乐教育的频谱关系,以做这一领域的反工作。我特别提出了三个问题:时间与反种族主义、反法西斯和反歧视的工作有什么关系?时间和音乐教育有什么关系?时间,在这种情况下,当代历史时刻,使音乐教育领域过时还是更有必要?说白了,音乐教育的命运是什么?考虑到该领域在当前历史时刻的地位,我从另一个角度思考这个领域:音乐教育对任何事情都没有好处,也不是变革,也不是社会变革的代理人。通过卸下负担,不那么严肃地对待自己,一个人面对的是一个不被正义的紧迫感所束缚的石板,而不是屈服于时间限制的感觉体验,而是最终可以呼吸和存在。正是在这个存在和“时间的脱节”的时间空间里,本期特刊的作者进入并留下了他们的印记,并做了反工作,不是因为它是必要的、相关的或及时的,而是因为他们觉得自己致力于做这项工作是出于一种集体责任感。我邀请读者停下来,犹豫一下,思考一下这篇文章和本期特刊作者提出的问题,这些问题将危机管理的传统或以紧急为导向的行动和对人类和环境危机的反应抛在身后。我的结论是,也许是时候从“更好的世界”的话语实践转向“释放溢出”的恒常性了。
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