Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Howard Goodall -- Introduction -- Part 1.The Great Leap Forward-Early Traditions : Cultural, Environmental, and Developing Methods. Moveable 'Do', Sol-Fa and Vertical Ladders : Guido to Glover to Curwen to Kodály / Jane Southcott ; The Role of the Cantor in the Performance of Liturgy : Council of Laodicea in the Mid-Fourth Century to Guido of Arezzo (C.990-C.1040) / Carol Williams ; Orff's Schulwerk : Gestation, Interruption, Revival, and Dissemination / Jane Southcott and Andrew Sutherland ; Shinichi Suzuki and Talent Education : From Beginnings in Japan to the USA and the World / Jane Southcott ; Émile Jaques-Dalcroze and the Movement of Music / Karin Greenhead -- Part 2. Influences of Cultural Shifts in Society on Teaching and Learning. Jazz Education : Revolution or Devolution? / Leon de Bruin ; A Global Revolution in Music for Social Change : El Sistema from Chile to Venezuela and the World / Alexandra Carlson and Andrew Sutherland ; Televised Music Instruction / Paul Louth ; Subverting the Hegemony : The Popular Music Revolution / Geoff Lowe ; Progressing Multicultural Music Education from Colonialism, Othering, and Tokenism / Andrew Sutherland -- Part 3. Advancing Pedagogy with Technology and Creative Revolutions. Class Piano-Democratizing a Nineteenth-Century Status Symbol / Timothy J. Groulx ; R. Murray Schafer-Celebrating a 1960s Visionary / Ros McMillan ; The Evolution of Music Notation Software / Patrick Horton ; Musical Futures : Developing an Informal Learning Model for Mainstream Music Education since 2003 ; Hilary McQueen ; New Interfaces for Musical Expression : Instrument Making as Music Learning / Andrew Brown ; The Intimate Relationship between Technology and Music and Its Revolutionary Impact on Music Education / Renée Crawford.

"This volume explores music education locally and globally, and critically investigates where music education has come from, where it is, and where it may be going in the future, as well as what this means to us in the twenty-first century"--