This article focuses on a recently implemented general music curriculum in secondary public schools, whose main goal is to address social issues in Costa Rica. The author describes and discusses its context, rationale, theoretical tenets, and proposed practices with the purpose of advancing theory-practice reflection on music education practices within a geographical and cultural context--concerns congruent with the second, third, and seventh action ideals of the MayDay Group, but seldom addressed by conventional scholarship. (Contains 3 tables and 16 notes.)