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The article analyzes the basic content and characteristics of post-modern educational ideas, and the enlightenment of post-modern educational ideas to the teaching of Western music history, and then explores the instructional mode of Western music history supported by post-modern educational ideas.

This issue of RBM expresses the intensification of international cooperation on music research, with a particular emphasis on aspects of critical-analytical studies of popular music developed in representative centers of the USA, UK and Latin America. The theme "Analyses of popular music" proposes an approach to musical analysis toward cultural criticism, reiterating the possibilities of dialogue and reconciliation of theoretical and political positions put in alleged confrontations and antagonisms. In the Memory section, the RBM pays tribute to the composer Rogério Duprat, who would be 80 years old this year, with an article of Maria Alice Volpe (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) and his brother Régis Duprat (University of São Paulo).

This collection of new studies explores the diverse ways in which music -- and ideas about it -- have been disseminated in print and other media from the sixteenth century onward. The chapters look afresh at the circulation of manuscript and printed music in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries and reach forward to the present by considering how rapidly changing technologies influence the realms of popular music and jazz

This article examines how some Irish republicans have used 'rebel songs' as a means to resist the hegemonic power of the British state, and how militant republicanism is invoked musically, through sonic and physical references to gunfire. It explores how the use of rebel songs has changed, the inherent tensions within today's scene, and how republicans attempt to co-opt other conflicts as a means to strengthen their claim as resistance fighters. The article also analyses more nuanced resistances within the rebel music scene, exploring how competing republican factions use the same music to express opposing political positions, and why some musicians ultimately leave the scene on account of the musical and political restrictions placed upon them. In so doing, the article connects with ongoing attempts to rethink, remap, and develop new approaches to resistance within anthropology, while contributing to the developing subfield of 'ethnomusicology in times of trouble'.

Referendums often fail to live up to a deliberative standard, with many characterised by low levels of knowledge, disinterest and misinformation, negativity, and a focus on extraneous issues to which voters are voting. But social media offers new avenues for referendums to incorporate a greater deliberative dimension. Through a content analysis of BBC discussion forums, we test whether online discussion of the Scottish independence referendum has deliberative characteristics. Results suggest a mixed picture with conversation displaying some deliberative features (low incidences of flaming/discussion of referendum issues). However, low levels of discussion intensity, dominance by a few, little knowledge exchange, and high gender inequality illustrate that online referendum discussion lacks deliberative characteristics, implying that social media are not a panacea for referendum deliberation.