Personhood matters
In MM2, we write about the nature of personhood. One among many points we make is that “the kind of care that was needed to make us who we are…is, in turn, the kind of care we owe, or will owe, to each...
View ArticleEmpathy and Music Education
The emotional significance of music has been a topic of scholarship for centuries. For example, Plato and Aristotle believed that happy-sounding music has the power to make people feel happy;...
View Article9 important questions every music teacher should ask
While I was browsing my bookshelf yesterday, I found my old copy of Teaching as a Subversive Activity (Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner, 1969). Before becoming professors in New York City, both men...
View Article10 works or composers I can’t live without
I’m not a tech-savvy person, so I don’t know why a tweet—“10 works or composers you never want to hear again”—from October 7, 2014 showed up on my twitter feed today. But it did. Norman Lebrecht, one...
View Article5 Examples of Music for Humane Values
Music and music education can yield a wide variety of humane values, including the following: 1. Brass for Africa: Music can engage, empower, and repair. 2. The North Jersey Home School Association...
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Artistic Citizenship
We’re excited to announce our new publication, Artistic Citizenship: Artistry, Social Responsibility, and Ethical Praxis (edited by David Elliott, Marissa Silverman, and Wayne Bowman). New York: Oxford...
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Musical Identities
Many kind thanks to Raymond MacDonald, David J. Hargreaves, and Dorothy Miell for including us in your recent volume, Handbook of Musical Identities. There, we argue that explanations of why and how...
View ArticleLove Trumps Hate
In the midst of today’s tragic social, political, racial, gendered, and other conflicts, can amateur and professional music makers and school and community music programs contribute to positive social...
View ArticleThe Staples Singers Will Take You There
In the midst of today’s tragic social, political, racial, gendered, and other conflicts, can amateur and professional music makers and school and community music programs contribute to positive social...
View ArticleWe Don’t Stop
In the midst of today’s tragic social, political, racial, gendered, and other conflicts, can amateur and professional music makers and school and community music programs contribute to positive social...
View ArticleSame Love
In the midst of today’s tragic social, political, racial, gendered, and other conflicts, can amateur and professional music makers and school and community music programs contribute to positive social...
View ArticleMad World
In the midst of today’s tragic social, political, racial, gendered, and other conflicts, can amateur and professional music makers and school and community music programs contribute to positive...
View ArticleI Am; We Are
In the midst of today’s tragic social, political, racial, gendered, and other conflicts, can amateur and professional music makers and school and community music programs contribute to positive social...
View ArticleHallelujah!
Meet the Killard House School. Located in Donaghadee, North Ireland, the Killiard House School’s motto is: “Together We Can.” The school is dedicated to providing for special needs students with...
View ArticleHappy Mother’s Day!
Tomorrow is Mother’s Day. And that’s reason enough to consider some connections between music, mothers, and their children. By the last trimester, an unborn child has fully functioning hearing. An...
View ArticleHappy Mother’s Day!
Today is Mother’s Day. As we stated this time last year, that’s reason enough to celebrate some connections between music, mothers, and their children. Mothers begin their connections to their unborn...
View ArticleRevolutionary Love
What does “revolutionary” love mean? For singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco: …it means seeing no stranger. You know? It means, even with your opponents, to look into another’s face and say, you are part of...
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