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OBAMA “HOPE” ARTIST: PUT MUSIC BACK IN SCHOOLS
“Graphic designer and street artist Shepard Fairey is well known for images like the OBEY logo and those iconic posters of Barack Obama from his 2008 election campaign. [Now] Fairey’s latest project is all about getting art back on the agenda in schools…”
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COULD THE ARTS ACTUALLY BE MAKING A COMEBACK IN OUR SCHOOLS?
“The answer, Ravitch said, is to consider music and visual arts as valuable as reading and math. "The arts are just as important in schools as the basic subjects—[art] is a basic subject.”“
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CAN’T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD: THE NEUROBIOLOGICAL BASIS FOR WHY WE LOVE MUSIC
A brand new Brain On Music Education column is now up!
“We’re going to change course in this month’s column. Rather than focusing on a topic related to how early music education greatly benefits our brain in general, we are going to cover something we already know and neurobiologists are just beginning to figure out: why listening to music gives us pleasure…”
Continue reading: Brain on Music Education 108: Can’t Get it Out of My Head: The Neurobiological Basis for Why We Love Music
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MOVING TO THE RHYTHM CAN HELP LANGUAGE SKILLS
“It seems that the same ingredients that are important for reading are strengthened with musical experience. Musicians have highly consistent auditory-neural responses.
"It may be that musical training - with its emphasis on rhythmic skills - can exercise the auditory-system, leading to less neural jitter and stronger sound-to-meaning associations that are so essential for learning to read,” added Prof Kraus.
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“THE POWER OF MUSIC” TO AFFECT THE BRAIN
“…scientists have found that music stimulates more parts of the brain than any other human function. That’s why she sees so much potential in music’s power to change the brain and affect the way it works.”
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ART IS “AMERICA’S SECRET WEAPON FOR POSITIVE CHANGE”
“The arts provide a way for people better to understand "who they are in a time in history where that is desperately needed.”
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LOBBYING FOR MUSIC
“If there is too much focus on non-creative subjects in our schools, I believe that our educational programs across the nation would suffer,” said McCutchon, the current secretary of UD’s NAfME chapter. “Music not only teaches students how to understand and play music, but also key skills such as teamwork, time management, forward planning, and organization. Music in itself is such a powerful tool that anyone can connect to no matter how small that connection may be.”
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