A new paperback collection of scholarship from The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research in American Music Education provides practical guidance to researchers embarking on qualitative data collection and analysis in the field of American music education.

Preface, Colleen M. Conway, 1. Ethics and Qualitative Research in Music Education, Judith M. Birk and Cynthia S. Shindledecker, 2. Collecting and Analyzing Observation of Music Teaching and Learning Data, Margaret Schmidt, 3. Conducting and Analyzing Individual Interviews, Kathryn Roulston, 4. Collecting and Analyzing Focus Group Data, John Eros, 5. Collecting, Generating, and Analyzing Multimodal and Multimedia Data, Evan S. Tobias, 6. Music-Making as Data: Collection and Analysis, Kristen Pellegrino, 7. Software to Interrogate Qualitative Data in Music Education, Peter R. Webster, 8. Changing the Conversation: Considering Quality in Music Education Qualitative Research, Mitchell Robinson, 9. The Politics of Publication: Voices, Venues, and Ethics, Mitchell Robinson