Hip Hop and Improvisation
The way hip hop is portrayed in the media plays a great role in the way our students and society in general perceive it. There has been an entire world of hip hop that has been left out of the…
Month February 2006
Popular Music and Music Education
The recent International Association for the Study of Popular Music conference gave me a lot to think about. I will discuss some specific issues that were addressed at the conference in the next few days. The overarching feeling I had…
Why are record sales down?
The next time the music industry and the current state of popular music comes up in conversation with your students ask them to answer some of the questions from this ipsos survey and then have a discussion about the answers…
A possible model for commissioning a new piece of music
Have you ever wanted to commission a new piece of music for your music students but not had the money to make it happen? Sixty five symphony orchestras across the country have created a model for commissioning new music that…
Young people going to classical music concerts?
It’s always interesting reading about the various ideas people have in order to increase the attendance of younger people going to classical music concerts. Justin Davidson, guest blogging on Alex Ross’s The Rest Is Noise, recently offered his perspective on…