Paul G. Woodford is Associate Professor of Music Education at the School of Music, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario. He has published a history of music in Newfoundland, two music collections, and a book of essays.

"Certainly one of the best items published in our field in a while. Whether one reads Lee Shulman's The Wisdom of Practice (2004)Nel Noddings' Happiness and Education (2003), John Goodlad's Romances with Schools (2004) or Carl Bereiter's Education and Mind in the Knowledge Age (2002) one learns that the fundamental principle in education is that schooling must be compatible with the best democratic ideals. Only Paul Woodford has seized upon this requisite and applied it to the structure of music education."—Richard Colwell, Editor, The New Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning

• Preface1. Intelligence in the World: John Dewey's Moral Project2. Intelligence in the Musical World: Defining Liberalism Differently3. Living in a Postmusical Age: Reclaiming the Concept of Abstract Reason4. Music Education and the Culture Wars5. Toward Reclaiming the Public Musical Sphere6. Music Education as an Occasion for IntelligenceNotesBibliographyIndex