ABSTRACT
It is important to value music as a set of processes, skills and formal elements that give the subject structure and distinction. However, for music to claim a place in the school and to become a part of a general education, it needs to look outward and reveal its social and cultural significance. We are interested in why people make music, how they do it and what makes their way of doing it in some way unique and important to them. In turn, such interest informs what we do and why we do it. What emerges from this process is cultural understanding.
