"Based on a Northwestern University Music Education Leadership Seminar."

Includes bibliographical references.

Bringing it all back home : the case for popular music in the schools / Carlos Xavier Rodriguez -- Popular music in music education : toward a new conception of musicality / Carlos Xavier Rodriguez -- "Pop" goes ...? Taking popular music seriously / Wayne D. Bowman -- Popular music : the very idea of listening to it / Theodore Gracyk -- None so deaf : toward a new pedagogy of popular music / Martha Bayles -- Popular music in the American schools : what history tells us about the present and the future / Jere T. Humphreys -- Teaching the historical context of popular music : a view / W illiam R. Lee -- Music education in the Aquarian age : a transatlantic perspective (or "How do you make horses thirsty?") / George Odam -- Reciprocity and exchange : popular music in Australian secondary schools / Kathryn L. Wemyss -- Preparing teachers for popular music processes and practices / Scott E. Emmons -- K-12 music education at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum / Craig Woodson -- Pop music ensemble in music education / George Boespflug -- Of concert bands and garage bands : creating democracy through popular music / Randall Everett Allsup -- What can music educators learn from popular musicians? / Lucy Green -- When we question popular music in education, what is the question? / Robert A. Cutietta.