Why read Music Education in Crisis?

Book cover of Music Education in Crisis: The Bernarr Rainbow Lectures and Other Assessments

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Seminal lectures on music education since the 1990s.

There is no question that music education is in crisis today. The place of music in the national curriculum is controversial; there have been cuts in the provision of individual lessons; and there have been severe reductions in government funding, with more…

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Why read it?

1 author picked Music Education in Crisis as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Paul Harris

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It’s not that I actually love this book, it’s more that it raises enormously important questions.

Those of us who believe in the power of music well know that without art and culture the future of humanity surely is in question. There are so many issues to consider and this book raises a good number of them.

Regrettably, we live in an increasingly philistine society, sadly too evident in the kind of politicians who seem to be making the rules today. It would also do them an enormous amount of good to read this book and consider what they seem…

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