The Humanitarian Musician book by Doug Goodkin

How might music, properly understood, lead top the flowering of a nations character? How can music help lead us to more just ideals and worthy aspirations? How might music, taught humanistically, have the power to transform us?

Drawing from over 50 years of experience teaching music to children and adults, author Doug Goodkin examines the many ways that musical harmony can lead to social harmony. Beginning with a larger definition of music itself, this book looks at how music affects us both individually and collectively. How might we take the beauty and communion that happens on-stage off the stage into our very lives. Alongside visions of what might be, are the testimonies of what it has been for so many. The book also includes select games, songs, and dances in the music class that help lead children to their humanitarian promise.