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Symphonies for Schools Resources Highlight Deaf Awareness Month

09-21-2022

September is Deaf Awareness Month, with International Week of Deaf People having begun on September 19.

Two New Scholarly Books about Our Field

09-21-2022

Researcher and author Alix Sarrouy has just published two books relevant to anyone involved in the music for social change field.

Milken Institute Panel on Music and the Brain

07-20-2022

How does music impact the brain?

Birdsongs Top the Charts (and Protect Biodiversity)

07-20-2022

Last December, an album of endangered birdsongs, Songs of Disappearance, lasted several weeks among the top 50 albums in Australia—besting Taylor Swift, to name one of its contemporaries.

Drake Music Scotland Transforms Music Notation Teaching

06-15-2022

The nonprofit organization Drake Music Scotland is proving that technology can be more than a replacement for in-person experience.

Celebrate the Magic of Mali

06-15-2022

Google Arts and Culture, a free educational platform partnering with cultural institutions around the world, has published Mali Magic, a digital exhibition of Mali’s rich cultural and musical heritage and the efforts to preserve it.

Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

05-18-2022

In honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, we want to share some educational resources for your classroom or community group.

From Carnegie Hall, Online Resources for Summer Exploration

05-18-2022

Your students’ music education doesn’t have to end with the school year. Carnegie Hall’s Resources for Young Musicians offers young people the chance to freely explore their creativity and musicianship over the summer.

Agrigento: Advancing Music as Social Action 

Maria Lara, Founder and Trustee, Agrigento

05-04-2022

Music for social change is a field with enormous potential, yet one that has not been fully realized because of a central paradox: a common reliance on musical and educational practices that have little to do with social change.

‘Aesthetic Perspectives in Evaluation’ Webinar

04-20-2022

For all our efforts to quantify and report the results of our arts programs, many of us struggle with zooming out to evaluate our organizations. An upcoming free webinar hosted by Americans for the Arts might help: “Aesthetic Perspectives in Evaluation” will take place online on May 10 (15:00–16:15 EST).

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