In addition to examining musical practices of students’ cultural heritages, general music educators can teach the value and meaning of music in their own lives by finding ways to integrate a particular “foreign” music into their own experience. Moving from a cultural outsider to more of an insider is illustrated through tales of the journey of a North American music educator learning, performing, and teaching Afro-Peruvian music and dance in the United States and Peru.
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