In this article, the author argues that the Rhoda Bernard (2005) paper "Making Music, Making Selves" is seriously flawed in research design, literature review and, more importantly, in its conclusions. Bernard's hammering of the idea of self as having multiple identities is well taken, but today it is more than accepted as a given. The problem is…

Over the many years the author has been involved with music education, he has had the opportunity to work along side many fine scholars and teachers who remind him what a precious commodity school music is, or at least can be. He also notes that after so many years of school music flourishing in the schools that, as a school subject it remains…