"Talking Up Music Education" Podcast | NAMM Foundation

"Talking Up Music Education" is a podcast from The NAMM Foundation about music education. Host and Executive Director of The NAMM Foundation Mary Luehrsen chats with artist advocates, teachers, parents, students and business and community leaders who share stories about what they are doing to create music learning opportunities. Believe in music and subscribe today.

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I've been playing the violin for over 10 years...I am able to use the skills I've acquired to begin teaching myself guitar. Meanwhile, I've developed a liking for calculus, and science, organic chemistry and physics. Sounds nerdy, but I promise I'm not..."

- Student, Age 15

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Teens indicate making music provides the freedom for teens to just be themselves; to be different; to be something they thought they could never be; to be comfortable and relaxed in school and elsewhere in their lives.

Presentation to U.S. Congress, 2007, Washington D.C. (Invited and arranged by the National Association of Music Merchants/NAMM, on “The Impact of Music on the Lives of Children and Adolescents”).

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