Why We Shouldn’t Stop Defending Music Education

A few years ago, I came across an interesting and thought-provoking article by Peter Greene, entitled Stop ‘Defending’ Music.  His basic premise is that music has so many affective – or if you like ‘human’ – benefits that it shouldn’t need defending. He tells us that it is “universal’; he mentions its omnipresence in our lives and asks the popular rhetorical question, “Would you want to live in a world without music?”  Most musicians, music teachers or just ‘music lovers’ would find it nigh impossible to disagree with many of the points he makes, but I think Continue reading “Why We Shouldn’t Stop ‘Defending’ Music Education”