The praxial philosophy espoused in music matters a philosophy of music education offers an integrated sociocultural artistic participatory and ethics based concept of the natures and values of musics education musicing and listening community music musical understanding musical emotions creativity and more embodied enactive concepts of action perception and personhood weave through the books proposals practical principles for curriculum and instruction emerge from the authors . What is music does music deserve a place in general education if so why music matters builds new answers to these basic questions through a wide ranging examination of music as a diverse human practice the result is a ground breaking philosophy of music education that provides critically reasoned perspectives on the nature and significance of performing listening musicianship multiculturalism creativity consciousness curriculum development and more indeed. Organized in three parts music matters is exceptional for the attention it pays to many aspects of music and education that previous music education doctrine either misses or ignores altogether part i probes past and present relationships between philosophy and music education part ii builds a philosophy of music education based on a new way of thinking about the nature and value of music . Music matters a new philosophy of music education by david j elliott 369 rating details 72 ratings 8 reviews there is a mystery about music on one hand music making and music listening have occupied a prominent place in every culture since the dawn of recorded history and people everywhere continue to engage in a variety of musical experiences as part of their daily lives yet