Rationales for Teaching World Musics

Abstract

of encouraging, rather than neglecting, a culturally diverse society. The long-standing claim of the superiority of Western art music (referring to the Western European tradition) has been increasingly considered problematic, as has been the manifestation of this belief in the music curriculum.2 The belief that Western art music is more natural, complex, expressive, and meaningful than other musics has come to be seen as both an intellectual and a moral