Adult Nonfiction

Campbell, Patricia Shehan. Music, Education, and Diversity: Bridging Cultures and Communities. New York, NY: Teacher’s College Press, 2018.

This book provides important insights for educators in music, the arts, and other subjects on the role that music can play in the curriculum as a powerful bridge to cultural understanding. The author documents key ideas and practices that have influenced current music education, particularly through efforts of ethnomusicologists in collaboration with educators, and examines some of the promises and pitfalls in shaping multicultural education through music. The text highlights World Music Pedagogy as a gateway to studying other cultures as well as the importance of including local music and musicians in the classroom.

Mattern, Mark. Acting in Concert: Music, Community and Political Action. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998.

In this lively account of politics and popular music, Mark Mattern develops the concept of "acting in concert," a metaphor for community-based political action through music. Through three detailed case studies of Chilean, Cajun, and American Indian popular music, Mattern explores the way popular muisicians forge community and lead members of their communities in several distinct kinds of political action that would be difficult or impossible among individuals who are not linked by communal ties.

Tolan, Sandy. Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land. New York: Bloomsbury, USA, 2016.

It is an unlikely story. Ramzi Hussein Aburedwan, a child from a Palestinian refugee camp, confronts an occupying army, gets an education, masters an instrument, dreams of something much bigger than himself, and then, through his charisma and persistence, inspires scores of others to work with him to make that dream real. The dream: a school to transform the lives of thousands of children-- as Ramzi's life was transformed-- through music.

Tunstall, Tricia. Changing Lives: Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power of Music. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.

This is the story of conductor extraordinaire Gustavo Dudamel, and the music education program, El Sistema, that led him to success.