ABSTRACT
Music, as a lived social and cultural experience, is not solely aural. Rather, it weaves together strands of various mediums that, while intersecting and interacting at times, maintain elements of their own unique affordances. These points of multimedia convergence serve to amplify the collective experience we have with music as an art form. From print media outlets to blogs, fanzines to handbills, album art to liner notes-the contemporary experience of music is multimodal. Some might offer that this perspective strays too drastically from the inherent properties that make up the wholly unique offerings of the music classroom. However, the strength of this stance is in its recognition of music as an activity that exists, not only within the walls of formal schooling, but as a cultural form of collective and individual creative expression.
