ABSTRACT
The aim of this chapter is to chart the progress of the Musical Education of the Under-Twelves (MEUT) Association which linked pre-war to post-war concerns within music education, and developed them further. Although not established until 1949, it arose, as I shall demonstrate, from a coalition of a number of pre-war societies and associations, and until its demise in 1983 played a part in the development of primary school music education. The history of such an association provides a valuable lens through which we can identify underlying patterns of change and conflict within a subject, and in the process provide the ‘local detail’ which influenced the development of music education in the primary school, and later in the middle school, over more than thirty years (see Goodson, 1988).
