Innovation in Music Education: ideas and objects in circulation in the first half of the 20th century

This post-doctoral research aims to investigate the theme of innovation from two axes of interest for Music Education in the first half of the twentieth century, namely: the impacts of technological reconfiguration caused by the popularization of objects such as the recorder, the radio set, and the disc, and the international circulation of innovative pedagogical-musical ideas. We explore both aspects in the context of transnational school renewal movements, which in Brazil have been called Escola Nova, and which have as correlates in English and French the terms Progressive Education, New Education, and Éducation Nouvelle.