The results of this paper are drawn from interviews with the school principal and the music teacher of a secondary school in Shanghai, China, together with an analysis of 24 seventh-grade students' written assignments entitled "I and Music." These assignments reveal rich and varied connections between the students' social contexts and…

Author presented for consideration the position that the importance of mass media music (FM, AM, juke box, TV, film, etc.) might not be so much in its music as in the musical systems represented by that music. (Author/RK)

GRADES OR AGES: Grade 13. SUBJECT MATTER: Music. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The central portion of the guide is divided into six units: voice, strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion, and theory and form. Each unit is in list form. The guide is offset printed and staple-bound with a paper cover. OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES: A list of…

GRADES OR AGES: Grade 2. SUBJECT MATTER: Music including vocal, instrumental, and music appreciation. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into three sections, one for each of the above-mentioned categories. It is laid out in four columns across two pages. Column headings are goals, activities, helps for the teacher, and…

Administrators of schools without music programs are simply undervaluing this fine art form and depriving students of a great life experience. Schools can accommodate the arts by managing time better and scheduling more periods per day. A strong positive correlation exists beween school excellence and vigorous, dynamic arts programs. Nine…

Although the traditional idea of general education has been that there are certain things every civilized man ought to know in order to be "cultivated", there is no longer an ideal taste in music or a particular set of understandings about music that all people must acquire. (Author)

Discusses the relation of music and religion to contemporary youth. (RK)

Discusses categories of music, interaction of musical styles, status of musicians, and the roles of African music scholars and teachers. (Reprinted from African Report.) (DB)

Music in America has an elitist history. While music colleges stress the development of performers, there is no comparable education for the audience which must support them. Music appreciation should emphasize aural memory, so that audiences can understand the basic materials which lead to musical coherence. (CS)

As a teacher, conductor, adjudicator, and composer, the Danish immigrant Carl Reinhardt Busch educated the citizens of Kansas City and other cities to a higher level of music comprehension and appreciation. He contributed significantly to the development of music education and should be recognized in its history. (SR)

Discusses some of the factors such as cultural attitudes, student expectations, and teaching methods that affect and impede the teaching of college-level courses in music appreciation. An alternative teaching approach, which presents ways composers have portrayed events in the human life cycle, is described. (AM)

A model of music preference theory suggests ways that teachers can broaden their students' musical preferences. Teachers can change preferences by changing something in the listener, the social environment, the music, or the ways that the listener processes information. (AM)