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Most students in the three cities maintained that they did not know anything about world music other than that of their own community.
Students in the three cities perceived themselves as having little knowledge about other types of world music taught.
When considering context in music education, there are two distinct areas that warrant discussion: teaching specific traditions, and teaching world music in the classroom.
In the end, however, there is no stock answer to the question of what and how much context should be included in teaching world music.
What are the misrecognitions that haunt a project where ancient music and its study are assimilated to 'world music'?
A combination of apparent opposites - the provincial and the cosmopolitan - his music appropriates a global sweep of influences without being definable as 'world music'.
Surprisingly, world music, which had not played an obvious role in the curriculum only 16 years before, took virtually equal second place with classical music.
It is not difficult to find parallels to this development in today's world music.
