Empowering Music: Becoming and Belonging Narratives in the Context of Blind People’s Music Education
摘要
The paper describes how singing in a choir empowers blind students. The paper speaks about the history of blind people’s music education in Hungary, and introduces the actual work of the mixed-ability choir of the School of the Blind in Budapest. Through the members’ narratives, the paper challenges the stereotypical concept that special schools “segregate” disabled students. An insight into the choir’s work implies ideas to reconsider and broaden the concept, theory, and practice of inclusion.