Facing the Music Shaping Music Education from a Global Perspective

Facing the Music a power full case for the crucial role of world music in shaping learning environmrnts for ther twenty-first century. Based on over thirty, years of hands-on experience in music education, author Huib Schippers demonstrates that "to a large extent, what we hear, learn, and teach is the product of what we believe about music."

Director of Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre at Griffith University, Brisbane; Deputy Chair of the Music Council of Australia; and author of several Dutch books on music education including Harde Noten - muziekeducatie in wereldperspectief (Cultuurnetwerk, 2004), One Monkey, no Show - culturele diversiteit in de Nederlandse muziekeducatie. (Netherlands Institute for Arts Education, 2000), and Dundumba's in de Bachstraat - Wereldmuziek in de Muziekschool (VKV, 1993)