Why is music significant in life and education? What shall we teach? How? To whom? Where and when? Music Matters: A Philosophy of Music Education offers an integrated sociocultural, artistic, participatory, and ethics-based concept of the natures and values of musics, education, musicing and listening, community music, musical understanding, musical emotions, creativity, and more. David J. Elliott is Professor of Music and Music Education at NYU.

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