Religious musical cultures: Reflections on music teaching in schools

Abstract

Considering the conception of multicultural education in the contemporaneity in the face of the compulsoriness of the music teaching in the curriculum of Brazilian schools, this work intends to discuss some aspects concerning religious musical cultures. Some theoretical tendencies in musical education, informed by the students’ everyday view, have debated the challenges and the possibilities of a plural music teaching, which may be opened to the different ways of producing, surrounding and consuming music. The questions developed here deal with a theoretical reflection on the possible tensions of music teaching in schools, looking upon the specificities of the religious cultures and their practices and musical experiences.

Keywords: music education, musical cultures, religion.