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After reading this article I feel that I agree with what the author tries to convey. I think pop music should be included in the Music curriculum in schools not only because it helps in interesting the students-since pop is what they mainly listen to-but it also helps them understand the fundamentals of how pop music was created. It helps them get the basic knowledge of classical music and the theory which is now used in pop music as well.
I also feel that the article was very interesting for future music educators because it helps us understand how students now a days are thinking. They don't always want to learn about classical music, instead they want to know more about pop music since it is what they mostly grew up listening to. As a student myself I also feel that this is what students learning music would like. Since I grew up listening to pop and latin music, I only started knowing more about classical music when I started studying it. I feel that if students get both the education of classical and pop music, it will be a happy medium for both the students and the educators.
I disagreed with the author when he mentioned that some music educators are not as in tuned with popular music. I feel like this is not always the true because if I were to be a music educator, I would know a great deal about popular music from my day since that is the genre I mostly listen to. I don't necessarily think all music educators are like this, but I did disagree how he put all of them under the same umbrella, stating they are not as familiar with pop music as they are with classical.
I did like how he mentioned that both the students and teachers can benefit from each others knowledge. This is because some students might know about one type of genre that a teacher is not too familiar with, and vice versa with the student not knowing about classical music. In this case both of them benefit because they are sharing each other's knowledge of music. I feel that the author is encouraging all of us to share our music knowledge with our students and not to be hesitant to receive the same knowledge from the students as well.
I feel like this has opened up my view of what music to teach my future students. I feel like now I will show them not only examples of classical music but of jazz, r&b, pop and many more, which I have yet to discover.