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Universal access for the universal language. (music education)

Arts Education Policy Review,  November, 1997  by Richmond, John W.

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In 1996, the theme developed by the organizers for the World Conference of the International Society for Music Education (ISME) was "Music: The Universal Language"; it was at once axiomatic and highly debatable. It is axiomatic to suggest that all peoples of the world are musical--that musical behavior is anthropologically universal.

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Few if any would argue such a proposition. But the question about the degree to which music functions as language per se--universal or otherwise--has been the source of vigorous scholarly debate for some time.(1) In other words, the ...

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