Traces of coloniality in higher music education: a systematic literature review
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1590/SciELOPreprints.16170Keywords:
Dialogic education, Awareness, Higher music education, Problematizing music education, ColonialityAbstract
This paper presents a systematic literature review on colonialities in higher music education, focusing on the relationships among repertoire, critical awareness, and processes of musical signification. The analysis reveals that the repertoires legitimized by institutions largely follow Eurocentric frameworks, resulting in the marginalization of popular, local, and non-Western musical practices. The research was based on structured searches in academic databases and on analytical reading of publications related to the topic. The results point to the persistence of hegemonic musical epistemologies, the reproduction of colonial hierarchies, and the difficulty of incorporating decolonial perspectives into curricula. It is concluded that the literature indicates the need to reconfigure pedagogical practices in order to promote aesthetic diversity, sociocultural inclusion, and critical approaches capable of challenging the musical epistemicides still present in higher music education in Brazil.
Downloads
Posted
How to Cite
Section
Copyright (c) 2026 Reinaldo Neves Dos Santos, Leandro Augusto Dos Reis

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Plaudit
Data statement
-
The research data is contained in the manuscript


