Notes
1Plato. 1992. Republic (2nd ed.; G. M. A. Grube & Reeve, C. D. C., Trans.). Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, III, 413c.
2Baker, G. 2014. El Sistema orchestrating Venezuela's youth. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 18.
3TED. 2009, February 18. Jose Antonio Abreu: The El Sistema music revolution (Video file). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uintr2QX-TU.
4Baker, G. 2014. El Sistema orchestrating Venezuela's youth. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 53.
5Baker, G. 2014. El Sistema orchestrating Venezuela's youth. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 4.
6Tolstoy, L. 1995. What is art? (Pevear, R. & Volokhonsky, L., Trans.). Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 252.
7Ibid Tolstoy, L. 1995. What is art? (Pevear, R. & Volokhonsky, L., Trans.). Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin.
8Tolstoy, L. 1995. What is art? (Pevear, R. & Volokhonsky, L., Trans.). Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 252–253.
9Baker, G. 2014. El Sistema orchestrating Venezuela's youth. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 95.
10Baker, G. 2014. El Sistema orchestrating Venezuela's youth. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 105.
11TED. 2009, February 18. Jose Antonio Abreu: The El Sistema music revolution (Video file). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uintr2QX-TU.
12Oestrich, J. R. 2014, December 17. Striking dissident notes, with many reprises. ‘El Sistema: Orchestrating Venezuela's Youth,’ by Geoffrey Baker. New York Times, p. C1.
13Swed, M. 2014, December 6. El Sistema founder, Gustavo Dudamel are targets of scathing new book. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved from http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-sistema-book-notebook-20141207-column.html.
14Allsup, R. E. & Benedict, C. 2008. The problems of band: an inquiry into the future of instrumental music education. Philosophy of Music Education Review, 16 (2), 156–173. And Allsup, R. E. In press. Remixing the classroom: Toward an open philosophy of music education. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
15Elliott, D. J. 1995. Music Matters. New York: Oxford University Press.