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What is wrong with school music? – a response to Malcolm Ross

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Vic Gammon
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Abstract

This paper sets out to interrogate the assertions contained in Malcolm Ross's What's Wrong With School Music? (British Journal of Music Education, Vol. 12, No. 3). Whilst resisting the tone of Ross's piece and rejecting its philosophical underpinnings, the author finds that there is some substance in its polemical thrust, even though Ross's caricaturing style does as much to mask as to analyse problems. Using ethnographic data collected over a number of years, Dr Gammon focuses on the relative unpopularity of music, the music curriculum, resourcing and the problems of music teachers in an attempt to identify areas for examination, discussion and progress.

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British Journal of Music Education , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , July 1996 , pp. 101 - 122
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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