Today's music teachers and teacher educators are just as likely to overlook, downplay, or ignore music's many social and political meanings, thereby implying to their students that its only "legitimate" meaning is to be found in "the quality of its making" rather than also in its relation to politics and other forms of experience. Even music…

Sound Learning is a partnership among the Georgia State University (GSU) School of Music's Center for Educational Partnerships in Music (CEPM), the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, professional musicians in the Atlanta area, and schools in metropolitan Atlanta. It is a curriculum-based music education partnership designed to enrich children's music…