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To comprehend the changes occurring in music and their impact on music education,it is necessary to understand the dynamics of social change, which is the topic of the influential, best-selling book The Tipping Point:

How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, by Malcolm Gladwell.l Gladwell’s thesis isthat small changes and events can accumulate and cause rapid, large-scale transformations once a critical mass, or tipping point, has been reached. Gladwell employs his theory to explain such disparate events as the explosive growth of e-mail as a means of communication to the dramatic decrease in New York City’s crime rate in the 1990s.

We are undoubtedly living in a period of rapid cultural and social change. We are alsowitnessing a dramatic transformation in the ways people experience music and the practices used to educate children. Is music education keeping pace with these changes? Can Gladwell’s thesis be applied constructively to music education?

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