Geoffrey Baker is a Reader in the Music Department at Royal Holloway, University of London. His books include Imposing Harmony: Music and Society in Colonial Cuzco (2008), which won the American Musicological Society's Robert Stevenson Award, and Buena Vista in the Club: Rap, Reggaetón, and Revolution in Havana (2011). He has also created a series of ethnographic films about childhood music learning in Cuba and Venezuela.

Geoffrey Baker has done real service to all of us who think about issues of music education, and indeed of education, far beyond the ES project.

• Introduction ; PART ONE: The Institution and Its Leaders ; 1. El Maestro: Jose Antonio Abreu ; 2. Gustavo Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra ; 3. Organizational Features and Dynamics ; 4. Demographics and Development ; PART TWO: Music Education ; 5. The Orchestra in Theory and Practice ; 6. Learning and Teaching in El Sistema ; PART THREE: Social Education ; 7. Social Action through Music ; 8. Social Inclusion and Discipline ; 9. Democracy, Teamwork, Competition, and Meritocracy ; 10. Realities, Dreams, and Revolutions ; PART FOUR: Impact ; 11. The Politics and Economics of Impact ; 12. Impact on Venezuelan Cultural Life ; 13. Advances, Alternatives, and the Future ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index

Geoffrey Baker is a Reader in the Music Department at Royal Holloway, University of London. His books include Imposing Harmony: Music and Society in Colonial Cuzco (2008), which won the American Musicological Society's Robert Stevenson Award, and Buena Vista in the Club: Rap, Reggaetón, and Revolution in Havana (2011). He has also created a series of ethnographic films about childhood music learning in Cuba and Venezuela.

Geoffrey Baker has done real service to all of us who think about issues of music education, and indeed of education, far beyond the ES project.

• Introduction ; PART ONE: The Institution and Its Leaders ; 1. El Maestro: Jose Antonio Abreu ; 2. Gustavo Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra ; 3. Organizational Features and Dynamics ; 4. Demographics and Development ; PART TWO: Music Education ; 5. The Orchestra in Theory and Practice ; 6. Learning and Teaching in El Sistema ; PART THREE: Social Education ; 7. Social Action through Music ; 8. Social Inclusion and Discipline ; 9. Democracy, Teamwork, Competition, and Meritocracy ; 10. Realities, Dreams, and Revolutions ; PART FOUR: Impact ; 11. The Politics and Economics of Impact ; 12. Impact on Venezuelan Cultural Life ; 13. Advances, Alternatives, and the Future ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index