Malcolm Gladwell , The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2000).
2.
Ibid., 60.
3.
Ibid., 38.
4.
Ibid., 78.
5.
Ibid., 92.
6.
Music for All Foundation, The Sound of Silence: The Unprecedented Decline of Music Education in California Public Schools: A Statistical Review (Warren, NJ: Music for All Foundation, 2004). Available at www.music-for-all.org/documents/soundofsilence_004.pdf .
7.
Ibid., 5.
8.
Ibid., 5.
9.
"New Harris Poll Reveals that 93 Percent of Americans Believe that the Arts Are Vital to Providing a Well-Rounded Education" ( Americans for the Arts, June 13, 2005). Available at ww3.artsusa.org/information_resources/press/2005/2005_06_13b.asp .
10.
Music for All Foundation, The Sound of Silence, 10.
11.
Ibid., 11.
12.
"First-Ever Canadian Report Released on the State of Music Education " (Coalition for Music Education in Canada, May 27, 2005). Read the complete report at http://coalitionformusiced.ca/pdf/EnglishMusicReport.pdf.
13.
Council for Basic Education, Academic Atrophy: The Condition of the Liberal Arts in America's Public Schools ( Washington, DC: Council for Basic Education, 2004). Available at http://downloads.ncss.org/legislative/AcademicAtrophy.pdf.
14.
Steven C. Martino, et al., "Exposure to Degrading Versus Nondegrading Music Lyrics and Sexual Behavior Among Youth,"Pediatrics118, no. 2 (August 2006): 430.
15.
Joshua Kosman , "Classical Music: Tuning Up for the 21st Century ," San Francisco Chronicle, July 15, 2002 . (www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/07/15/DD52044.DTL&type=music)
16.
Jacob Hale Russell. "Orchestras Ponder Their Future," Wall Street Journal Online, 4 June 2006. ( http://online.wsj.com/article/SB114920312819169203.htm1) Data reported from the American Symphony Orchestra League.
17.
Lowell Noteboom , "A Champion for Orchestras," Symphony (July/August 2006): 37-39. Available at www.symphony.org/news/room/06_jachampion.shtml.
18.
Total CD sales in 2005 were 705.4 million and classical sales were 15.9 million. Data from Nielsen SoundScan, available at wwwinfoplease.com/ipea/A09218 35.html and www.info please.com/ipea /A0921839.html.
19.
Namm, The International Music Products Association, Music USA 2006: A Statistical Review of the Music Products Industry (Carlsbad, CA: NAMM, 2006).
20.
A study of job satisfaction among members of seventy-eight professional orchestras revealed that orchestra musicians are generally less satisfied with their jobs than are prison guards. (Jutta J. Allmendinger, et al. " Life and Work in Symphony Orchestras," Musical Quarterly80, no. 2 (Summer 1996 ): 194-219.
21.
Warrick L. Carter , "Response to Judith A. Jellison's 'How Can All People Continue to Be Involved in Meaningful Music Participation?"' in Vision 2020: The Housewright Symposium on the Future of Music Education , ed. Clifford K. Madsen ( Reston, VA: MENC, 2000 ), 140. Available at www.menc.org/publication/vision2020/carter.html.
22.
Neilsen SoundScan.This report shows that 2005 sales of jazz were 17.1 million and sales of R&B were 143.4 million.
23.
"About 'Play It Strange,"' (Play it Strange Trust , September 13, 2006). Read more about the program at www.playitstrange.co.nz
24.
"Creating Original Opera," (Metropolitan Opera Guild, September 13, 2006). www.metoperafamily.org/education/educators/creating_original.aspx.
25.
"Vermont MIDI Project," (Vermont MIDI Project , September 13, 2006). www.vtmidi.org ; for an example of a Vermont MIDI project see Patricia Riley, "9 National Standards: 1 Composition Project," Teaching Music13, no. 4 (February 2006): 24-28.
