Abstract
This article introduces the special issue about decolonial music education the authors have edited, while presenting some core concepts of the “modernity / coloniality” framework and approaching them on the music education realm. Particularly, it provides some basis of a theoretical perspective to understand instituted forms of music education in Latin America as derived from the modern civilizatory project, Besides, this framework allows to rescue, visualize and understand, as well as imagine and configure, music education experiences that offer resistance to such process and promote epistemological alternatives. As a presentation of this special issue the article also proposes some keys for reading the papers that follow it.
