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Bowman, Wayne – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2005
This essay explores the contingency of music's value, and the significant ways that contingency qualifies (or should qualify) our understandings of the utility of instructional method. More specifically, it raises the possibility that the altruistic pursuit of methodological purity may serve ends dramatically different than those espoused by…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music, Teaching Methods, Music Appreciation