Music, The “Magical Mystery Skill?”: 4 Reasons Elitism Exists in Music Education
Why is it that musical ability is seen by “non-musicians” as an innate, seemingly magical set of skills that either you have or you don’t? “Non-musicians” throughout this article, will refer to people who do not engage in musical activities outside of listening and may have, for a number of reasons, been turned off from active music making. Music is an innately human activity and every human culture in the world has some type of music. Music is “…essential … to being fully hu