In terms of its sociopolitical balance sheet, Sistema’s greatest asset has also been its greatest liability: its proximity to, if not inextricable association with, the Chavismo governments
The Problem Part 6: where in our search for solutions we pick on a theoretical middle school band instructor
The history of music education as a whole is essentially one of excellent outcomes for a chosen few being achieved through manifestly anti-social if not unethical means.
Sistema is Dead – and “THE RESPONSE”
There’s a certain charming simplicity and predictability to the remnants of the Sistema movement, vestigial though they may be. Publish a deliberately hyperbolic polemic on the demise of the word, and you can set your watch to THE RESPONSE.
Sistema is dead – a post mortem
As author of what has been labeled "the original blog" on Sistema, I reluctantly accept the responsibility of writing its obituary. Where to begin... Sistema was born in the 1970s as a conventional elitist youth orchestra, founded by a career civil servant with conducting ambitions... Or: Sistema was born in the late 1990s in Venezuela … Continue reading Sistema is dead – a post mortem
The Search for SIGnificance
Whither (wither?) the Sistema Special Interest Group?
Report from ISME 2016
Didn't make it to Glasgow? Here's some of the stuff you might have missed.
Social action through music – beyond Sistema
An investigation into "Social Action through Music" produces some unexpected - and oftentimes uncomfortable - results.
What next for Sistema?
What do Microsoft and Venezuela have in common?
No apologies for the orchestra
Is the orchestra the best medium for social action through music?
The Butcher, The Baker?
Geoff Baker has written a book. People are worried.
Jonathan Andrew Govias 