In accordance with the book Who needs Classical Music, Johnson holds to the view that musical literacy is undeveloped; music education is far from comprehensibility and neutral ; focusing on immediacy is not a way to understand artworks. To a large extent, I agree with him because there is a phenomenon of people seeing music as more of an entertainment that provide them immediate enjoyment than taking it seriously and understanding it through a comprehensive way.
Johnson compares literacy of reading with musical literacy. People have strong belief that the development of literacy is pivotal in the full development of an adult, that they put so much emphasis on how their children are being educated and through what reading materials, so as to ensure their children have mature understanding of themselves as well as the …show more content…
Its teaching way is not all-arounded as it focuses on introducing music that is familiar to students’ music experiences but not something that is new and alien to them. New things do not necessary means it can’t relate to students’ music experience. Such teaching way is far from the basic goal of education—extend the view and grasp, to both challenges and develop confidence in coping them. Hence, a balanced music education should relate Western music with other traditions, both non-Western and popular. Nevertheless, when choosing which other music to relate to involves one’s preference and familiarity, that means music education is partial. In my opinion, education is never impartial as it foregrounds the materials taught in it as more important than others. For example, when we read a textbook of the subject Accounting, the author will impose his/her subjective thoughts that accounting is very useful and significant in daily life and encourages readers to continue reading and learning it by relating the concepts of certain chapters they are reading to other chapters in the text
Johnson compares literacy of reading with musical literacy. People have strong belief that the development of literacy is pivotal in the full development of an adult, that they put so much emphasis on how their children are being educated and through what reading materials, so as to ensure their children have mature understanding of themselves as well as the …show more content…
Its teaching way is not all-arounded as it focuses on introducing music that is familiar to students’ music experiences but not something that is new and alien to them. New things do not necessary means it can’t relate to students’ music experience. Such teaching way is far from the basic goal of education—extend the view and grasp, to both challenges and develop confidence in coping them. Hence, a balanced music education should relate Western music with other traditions, both non-Western and popular. Nevertheless, when choosing which other music to relate to involves one’s preference and familiarity, that means music education is partial. In my opinion, education is never impartial as it foregrounds the materials taught in it as more important than others. For example, when we read a textbook of the subject Accounting, the author will impose his/her subjective thoughts that accounting is very useful and significant in daily life and encourages readers to continue reading and learning it by relating the concepts of certain chapters they are reading to other chapters in the text