Music and its wider relevance

While the music education profession has made great progress over the last 25 years, we still face many questions which remain unanswered: What is the relationship between music and literacy? Music and mathematics? Musical expertise and practice? Researcher and scholar Susan Hallam of the London Institute of Education tackles these questions and more. She offers balanced answers that suggest that we still have got a long way to go to fully understanding the relationships between learning and music.