Sound PedagogyMusic education today requires an approach rooted in care and kindness that coexists alongside the dismantling of systems that fail to serve our communities in higher education. But, as the essayists in Sound Pedagogy show, the structural aspects of music study in higher education present obstacles to caring and kindness like the entrenched master student model, a neoliberal individualist and competitive mindset, and classical musics white patriarchal