Introduction to the Senior Researcher Award Acceptance Address.

Every 2 years, NAfME and the Society for Research in Music Education honors one of its members with the Senior Researcher Award to recognize outstanding, significant, and lifelong contributions to music education research. Marie's insatiable curiosity about the social, cultural, political, and historical aspects of music and music education drives her life of inquiry. For over 3 decades, Dr. McCarthy has produced a steady stream of meaningful and insightful pieces of scholarship examining the sociocultural and sociohistorical dimensions of music education and music. [Extracted from the article]