In Music, Leisure, Education, Roger Mantie presents a compelling, refreshing, and meticulously researched antidote to neoliberal individualism and work as doxa. Mantie carefully and convincingly positions music and, especially, personally meaningful music-making, at the heart of this impressive treatise that addresses the perennial question: how should one live?
Roger Mantie is Associate Professor, Department of Arts, Culture and Media at University of Toronto Scarborough, with a graduate appointment at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. He enjoyed previous appointments at Arizona State University and Boston University. Mantie is co-author of Education, Music, and the Social Lives of Undergraduates: Collegiate A Cappella and the Pursuit of Happiness, and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Technology and Music Education (2017) and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Music Making and Leisure (2016).