Book Review: Assessing El Sistema and the Claims of Social Change through Music Education

Baker Geoff 2017 “Enchantment and disenchantment.” https://geoffbakermusic.wordpress.com/el-sistema-the-system/el-sistema-blog/enchantment-and-disenchantment/.

Bickford Tyler 2017 Schooling New Media: Music, Language, and Technology in Children’s Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Coroníl Fernando 1997 The Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

El Sistema Global 2022 “Programme directory.” https://sistemaglobal.org/programme-directory/.

Minks Amanda 2002 “From children’s songs to expressive practices: old and new directions in the ethnomusicological study of children.” Ethnomusicology 46: 379–408.

Taussig Michael 1997 The Magic of the State. New York: Routledge.

Tunstall Tricia 2012 Changing Lives: Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power of Music. New York: W. W. Norton and Co.

Tunstall Tricia Booth Eric 2016 Playing for Their Lives: The Global El Sistema Movement for Social Change through Music. New York: W. W. Norton and Co.