ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the current context for teaching and learning music history in Brazilian universities. It begins with a survey of the decline in importance of music history as a subject in secondary and tertiary studies in Western countries during the twentieth century before turning to a discussion of the intrinsic and extrinsic forces most influencing the teaching and learning of music history in Brazil today. The challenges in Brazil emerged both from within the discipline’s own premises as well as from political, economic, and cultural factors. The author proposes reforms that might save the teaching of music history from being eliminated from academic curricula.
