The change needed in urban music education not only relates to the idea that music should be at the center of the curriculum; rather, it is that culturally rele

This second volume, the follow-on to Teaching Music in the Urban Classroom, Volume 1: A Guide to Survival, Success, and Reform, extends the conversation to incl

The prevailing discourse surrounding urban music education suggests the deficit-laden notion that urban school settings are "less than," rather than "different

Culturally relevant music can drive reform in urban education. Teaching Music in the Urban Classroom, Volume 1: A Guide to Survival, Success, and Reform opens a

This timely book explores teaching music in the urban setting along with interviews and journal accounts from urban music teachers in a variety of specializatio