music-education | Geoff Baker

Relational publishing

As you may have noticed (!), I just self-published my new book “Musicking in a relational key” on the platform PubPub: https://musrelkey.pubpub.org/. Have you had a look? What do you think about the platform, presentation, ease of use,… Read More

“Musicking in a Relational Key” out now!

My new book, Musicking in a relational key: music education and community music for a time of metacrisis, is now publicly available. The book is open access and available for free download in three languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese)… Read More

Watching the watchmen (redux): further thoughts on evaluating (El) Sistema

A recent psychological study (Hogan et al. 2023) found that intensive Sistema programs in the US brought no additional gains in executive functioning, self-perception, or attitudes toward school in young children, when compared to general music education (or… Read More