Today we are living in an era of globalization - in Giddens' sense of the restriction of national discourse - of consumer barbarism, amoralism, and social inequalities. Education is the only way to cure these social phenomena. Music education in particular can contribute to their solution by teaching the works of modern Greek composers who espouse the ideas of social justice, equality, freedom: Greekness. Research questions: which works in modern Greek art music literature represent the concepts of Greekness and Social Justice? Are they included in the New Curricula for Music; how much educational space do they occupy and what teaching approaches are proposed, taking into account local and global social topicality? Based on what is formulated in the New Curricula for Music in Preschool, Primary and Secondary Education (2023), we will attempt to answer the above questions by methodologically following the music-aesthetical and socio-political interpretive analysis.

• Music education for social justice and equality

Ioannis Andronoglou from Giannitsa (Greece), holds a PhD in Musicology from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and is a guitar soloist with a master degree in classical guitar from the Mozarteum-Salzburg University of Austria. He has recorded albums, published musical works, given concerts in Greece and abroad and participated as a soloist-teacher in important guitar festivals around the world (Guitar Foundation of America, etc.).  He has also published a monograph, articles in conference proceedings and international scientific journals and chapters in edited volumes of Greek and foreign publications. As a lecturer he has participated in national and international conferences and has given lectures/recitals in important research institutions of the country (National Research and Study Foundation "Eleftherios K. Venizelos" etc.). He is a guitar teacher at the Music School of Giannitsa. He is the Artistic Director of the “Alexandreion” Municipal Conservatory of Giannitsa and a Teaching Fellow of the University of Western Macedonia/Greece (Department of Early Childhood Education/Florina), where he has also completed post-doctoral research. He is a member of the Hellenic Musicological Society.