Difference and Division in Music Education enriches existing diversity and social justice discourses by addressing the complex power-relations that frame both governance and agency at the policy, institutional and interpersonal levels, approaching ‘hate’ not as a monstrous aberration but as a product of late modernity.

Introduction: Difference and Division in Music Education (ALEXIS ANJA KALLIO) / PART 1: Examining the Boundaries of Inclusion / Chapter 1: Ingratitude and the Politics of Obligation: The Problem of (Un)Mutual Recognition in Music Education (NASIM NIKNAFS) / Chapter 2: Zainichi Korean Students and Korean Music in Japanese Elementary School: Cultivating a Positive Ethnic Identity and Building Relationships between Koreans and Japanese (MITSUKO ISODA) / Chapter 3: Internalised Violence and Music Education: An Axiological Proposal (ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ-SÁNCHEZ) / Chapter 4: Resisting the 'Us' Versus 'Them' Dichotomy through Music Education: The Imperative of Living in the 'Anti-'(JULIET HESS) / PART 2: Assigning, Controlling, and Contesting Musical Meaning / Chapter 5: On Hating Classical Music in Music Education (ALEXANDRA KERTZ-WELZEL) / Chapter 6: 'You Who Hate God': Investing in Love and Hate through the Sound of Satan (KETIL THORGERSEN AND THOMAS VON WACHENFELDT) / Chapter 7: Rap, Racism, and Punk Pedagogy (GARETH DYLAN SMITH) / PART 3: Beyond Good Intentions, Towards Ethical Encounters / Chapter 8: Made In/visible: Erasing Disability in Music Education (WARREN N. CHURCHILL AND TUULIKKI LAES) / Chapter 9: The Neoliberal Colonisation of Creative Music Education in Cultural Institutions: A Hatred of Democracy? (PANAGIOTIS A. KANELLOPOULOS AND NIKI BARAHANOU) / Chapter 10: Towards Solidarity through Conflict: Listening for the Morally Irreconcilable in Music Education (ALEXIS ANJA KALLIO)