What Music Schools Learned from the Pandemic: The 2020 Revision

The pandemic and social unrest during the year of 2020 set in motion sudden and drastic changes to how collegiate music was taught. Teachers and students experienced the most dramatic disruption in the history of the music teaching profession.

This book examines the state of collegiate music teaching prior to 2020 and then captures these radical and sudden changes through the eyes of music conservatory leaders from around the world. These leaders, who had a comprehensive view of what was unfolding, described what happened during this once in a century event.

From their insights we see what worked and what didn’t. The book then examines what this experience means, or could mean, for the future of music in higher education.

’What Music Schools Learned from the Pandemic: 2020 Revision’ is essential reading for researchers and music educators considering the future of the field in light of the pandemic, Black Lives Matter and Me Too.

Dr Robert Alan Cutietta is Professor of Music at the University of Southern California, USA. He is the author of ’Who Knew? Answers to questions about Classical Music you never thought to ask’ (2016) and ’Raising Musical Kids 2e’ (2013).