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Challenges in Music Education Facing the New South Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2009

Elizabeth Oehrle
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Abstract

South Africa is undergoing dynamic changes affecting all aspects of life, and legacies of the previous regime have a bearing on these changes. Music educators informal institutions face many challenges. Music-making in the informal sector is extensive, ongoing and relevant. Today, one of the greatest challenges for music educators in the formal sector is to realise the importance and value of developing a philosophy and process of music education that emanates and evolves from musics and musical practices existing in southern Africa.

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Research Article
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British Journal of Music Education , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , July 1998 , pp. 149 - 154
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

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