David J. Elliott is Professor of Music and Music Education at New York University. He is the author of Music Matters: A Philosophy of Music Education, editor of Praxial Music Education: Reflections and Dialogues, founder and editor of the International Journal of Community Music, and an award-winning composer/arranger with works published by Boosey & Hawkes. Marissa Silverman is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Undergraduate Music Education at the John J. Cali School of Music of Montclair State University. A Fulbright Scholar, her research interests include urban music education, music and social justice, interdisciplinary education, community music, and topics in the philosophy of music and music education. Wayne Bowman's primary research interests involve philosophy of music and the philosophical exploration of issues in music education. His work is extensively informed by pragmatism, by critical theory, and by conceptions of music and music education as social practices. He is particularly concerned with music's sociopolitical power and with ethically informed understandings of musical practice.