Teaching Music in the Urban Classroom

Teaching Music in the Urban Classroom, Volume 1: A Guide to Survival, Success, and Reform
Edited by Carol Frierson-Campbell, Foreword by Willie L. Hill, Jr. Published by Rowman & Littlefield and MENC (ISBN 1-57886-461-5)

This two-volume text is a collection of pieces by various music teachers, school administrators, researchers, and policy writers, meant to establish a dialogue leading to reform in urban music education.

Frierson-Campbell is an assistant professor of music at William Paterson University, in Wayne, New Jersey, and teaches courses in music education and graduate research and coordinates the Arts in Urban Schools outreach project.

This book was recommended by David Ephross, who teaches at P.S. 304 in Brooklyn.