A Response to David J. Elliott's "Musical Creativity in Context: A Different Drummer and Other Music Matters"

A response to a book by David J. Elliott entitled Music Matters: A New Philosophy of Music Education (Oxford, 1995) presented at the University of Maryland, College Park in 1997. The response focuses on aspects of creativity as it relates to music teaching and learning, including the importance of task type and difficulty, as well as of cultural context. The response ends with a story about Ruby, the artistic painting elephant who resided at the Phoenix Zoo and was, at the time, "the biggest artist in the Southwest."