Music Education in Crisis: The Bernarr Rainbow Lectures and Other Assessments

By Peter Dickinson

There is no question that music education is in crisis today. The place of music in the national curriculum is controversial; there have been cuts in the provision of individual lessons; and there have been severe reductions in government funding, with more planned. This book, containing the first five Bernarr Rainbow Lectures, makes an important and timely contribution to the debate on music education. There are contributions by Baroness Warnock, Lord Moser, John Paynter, John Stephens, Gavin Henderson, Sir Peter Maxell Davies and Wilfrid Mellers, as well as an assessment from Bernarr Rainbow himself, written late in his life.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184383880X
• ISBN13: 9781843838807
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"