This discussion offers a broad perspective on past and present philosophising about music and music education. In building this discussion, I employ two orienting concepts: modernity and postmodernity. My aim is to unpack some relationships between these concepts and philosophies of music and music education. (Note: I shall follow many other writers in making a distinction, below, between postmodernity as an era and `postmodern-ism' as a movement).
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