Michael B. MacDonald (PhD, University of Alberta), is Assistant Professor of Popular Music at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. An ethnomusicologist and ethnographic filmmaker, he teaches courses in ethnomusicology and cultural studies. Michael publishes widely on topics in the anthropology of music learning with special attention to critical youth studies and the critical pedagogy of music; his films explore themes of cultural sustainability.

Contents: Arts-Based Community Learning and Development as Radical Love - Refolkus: Arts-Based Community Learning and Development - Foucauldian Genealogy of Folk as the People and Aesthetic Multitude - A-CLD: Production of Subjectivities in the Festival-Machine - A-CLD: Production of Subjectivities in the Carnival-Machine - Critical Pedagogy of Aesthetic Systems - Video Recorded Interviews.