This book examines the American Sixties, and how that period’s socio-political essence was reflected and refracted in certain forms of the period’s music. I

The author constructs a new concept of music education, one designed to stimulate, guide, and support the efforts of pre-service and practicing music teachers a

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Why is music significant in life and education? What shall we teach? How? To whom? Where and when? The praxial philosophy espoused in Music Matters: A Philosoph