Diverse Approaches to Multicultural Music

Abstract

base vastly different from the special discipline of composed music that many general music teachers studied. How can music teachers successfully integrate multicultural material into their existing curricula? There are many approaches to introducing diverse material. Any one approach is necessarily incomplete. Teachers struggling to adapt their programs to today's changing paradigms need to consider a i broad spectrum of possibilities. An April 1993 article in the Music Educators Journal, Choosing Pluralism or Particularism by Jacqueline Yudkin, reflected much of the current discussion about multicultural music education. While that article made important, useful distinctions, it neglected a third