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This is the editors' introduction to the Special Focus Issue on Popular Music Education. Also included is a forward from Robert A. Cutietta, editor of the 1991 Music Educators Journal Special Focus Issue on Popular Music Education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As Music Educators Journal celebrates its centennial, it is appropriate to look back over the past century to see how advocacy in music education has evolved. Of the more than 200 submitted articles on advocacy, four main themes emerged: music education in community, the relevancy of music education, the value of music education, and the perpetual nature of advocacy. These themes were presented in the context of previous articles and then blended to create a platform from which current practitioners can work to promote music instruction in schools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

THIS is the first in a series of two articles on nineteenth century American band music. The second, “Early Band Music in the United States,” will appear in the February-March 1959 Music Educators Journal.The author is associate professor, Department of Music, College of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota. The article is based on research for a doctoral dissertation at the University of Minnesota. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE AUTHOR, a musician and former school music supervisor, now vice-president of Associated Music Publishers, Inc., is president of the Music Industry Council of the Music Educators National Conference. The title for his article was supplied by the editors who, after reading Mr. Grasso's manuscript, took responsibility for retiring the title he had written to the flag line. The article is more than “background and history.” It expresses the spirit of the Music Educators National Conference, whose 1907 founders included school music pioneers of the ilk typified by the Music Industry Council leaders in the year 1956. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]