Music, Higher Education, and Society

This volume asserts that institutional teaching, study, administration, and performance of music should derive from "essential goodness:" the transcendent value embodied in meaning-making that is manifest through holistic cognitive, creative, kinesthetic, productive, and expressive reality.

David E. Myers is Professor Emeritus and Retired Director of the University of Minnesota School of Music. His scholarship focus is lifespan learning, arts leadership, and arts policy. He is co-author of Redefining Music Studies in an Age of Change: Creativity, Diversity, and Integration (2017).

Introduction: Setting the Stage, or Pulling Back the Curtain 1. Foundations of Leadership for Change: Music's Essential Goodness Grasping Reality I: Assumptions Impeding Change and Progress in the Classical Music Ecosystem 3. Grasping Reality II: Breathtaking Opportunities Masquerading as Insoluble Problems 4. Toward Systemic Change and Progress: Thinking and Acting Strategically in the Context of Shared Governance 5. Transformation