The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #8754 Message #55238
Posted By: Animaterra
22-Jan-99 - 03:07 PM
Thread Name: Where are the kids?
Subject: RE: Where are the kids?
The fact of kids in schools not being exposed to folk music really gets my professional (elementary music teacher) dander up! What are we supposed to be doing, for goodness sake? Sandy's wife Carolyn recently coined the phrase "the Disneyfication" of elementary music education, where the kids are entertained with bubble gum pop style feel-good music. We run the risk in the States of greatly diminishing our cultural heritage when we give into that standard. We music teachers, I mean- --