This episode investigates the history of music education, the cultural shifts that have occurred in America since the middle part of the 1800s until today, and how that may have sculpted and framed the various music methodologies that we currently use in American public school education programs.

Sources we mentioned throughout the episode:

Class Dismissed, a “film about learning outside of the classroom”

A Concise History of American Music Education by Michael Mark

Duke’s mod-u Social Science Research Institute

This timeline of the history of American Education

This video published by the Lowell Mason House

PBS’s History Detectives Slave Songbook

The Kennedy Center Education Digital Learning Channel’s interview with Diane Ravitch

Howard Gardner’s Five Minds for the Future

This Kennedy Center video

The Child’s Bill of Rights published by the MENC

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