Music, Higher Education, and Society: Leading C. Myers, Myers,**

Name: Music, Higher Education, and Society: Leading C. Myers, Myers,**
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Further Details\n\nTitle: Music, Higher Education, and Society\nCondition: New\nDescription: \nThis 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.\nThe classical music ecosystem suffers from a legacy of survival, rather than flourishing across increasingly diverse audiences among whom personal and shared meaning is the crux of perceived value. Myers calls for a renaissance in professional education and practice that embeds rigorous and disciplined adherence to essential goodness as a non-negotiable premise. Change leadership is essential if classical music and musicians are to offer society the value it deserves through the classical arts, and administrators, boards, funders, and artists must adopt attitudes of service to this greater good in order t.