Inhalt
- PREFACE
- DEDICATION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- SECTION ONE: MUSIC PEDAGOGY AND SCHOOLING
- 1. National Survey of Musical Performance
- 2. Music In Our Schools Day: An Opportunity to Take Stock
- 3. The Accountability Dilemma
- 4. Arts in the Schools: A Comprehensive View
- 5. High Schools of the Arts
- 6. Musical Achievement: Good News & Bad
- 7. A Look into the Crystal Ball
- 8. Music: A Basic Intelligence
- 9. The Shameful Neglect of Creativity
- 10. Academic Excellence in Teaching the Arts
- 11. Evaluation: Pros and Cons
- 12. Music in Our Schools: The First 150 Years
- SECTION TWO: ADVOCACY AND ARTS EDUCATION POLICY
- 13. Education in the Arts: Getting It All Together
- 14. The Role of the National Endowment (for the Arts)
- 15. A New Rationale for the Arts in Education
- 16. What's Wrong with Music Education?
- 17. Funding for Arts Programs: The Total is Not So Bleak
- 18. Arts Education: Does the Left Hand Know?
- 19. Congress and the Arts: Getting With It
- 20. Arts in Basic Education: A Fight for Life?
- 21. Arts Policy in the U.S: Do We Have One?
- 22. Music for Every Child, Every Child for Music
- 23. Arts Education Triple Jeopardy
- SECTION THREE: ARTS, CULTURE, AND COMMUNITY
- 24. The Smithsonian: Teaching Our Musical Heritage
- 25. Valuing Our Cultural Treasury
- 26. The Community School Movement
- 27. Senior Citizen Symphony Brings Music to Children
- 28. Public Universities: The New Cultural Centers
- 29. Reaching Kids (Part I): How Symphonies Do It
- 30. Reaching Kids (Part II): How Opera Companies Do It
- 31. Whose Culture Should We Teach?
- SECTION FOUR: MUSIC EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL REFORM
- 32. The Music Educators National Conference (MENC): David Faces New Goliaths
- 33. The Tanglewood Symposium Revisited
- 34. Music in Our Schools: An Agenda for the Future
- 35. Changing Schools Through the Arts
- 36. The Lack of Professionalism in Higher Education
- 37. The Lack of Professionalism in Higher Education-Continued
- 38. Music Educators Meet-But Do They Miss the Point?
- 39. Are Teachers of the Arts Good Enough?
- 40. Educational Reform: Ferment in the Arts
- 41. Teacher Overhaul: Can We Do It?
- SECTION FIVE: DIVERSITY AND PLURALISM IN MUSIC EDUCATION
- 42. Poverty: An Ingrained Idea
- 43. Sex Bias in the Music Room
- 44. Special Treatment for the Gifted
- 45. More Arts for the Handicapped
- 46. Black Participation at the Kennedy Center: Goals are Set for Cultural Diversity
- 47. The Christmas Carol Hassle
- 48. Arts by the Handicapped: A National Very Special Arts Festival
- 49. Older Americans: A New Resource of Creative Talent
- 50. The Many Versus the Few
- INDEX