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标题：I Hear America Humming and It Is Out of Tune
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作者：Michael Peters
期刊名称：Action, Criticism and Theory for Music Education
印刷版ISSN：1545-4517
出版年度：2008
卷号：7
期号：1
页码：88-88
出版社：Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, MayDay Group
摘要：Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass at his own expense including the poem ¡°I Hear America Singing¡± which first appears as number 20 in the section Chants Democratic of the 1860 edition. Paul Woodford chooses this poem as his talisman and opening orientation (before Dewey), even if he turns to Dewey to fulfill the liberal political purposes of music education. The choice of the poem and the poem itself is worth dwelling on for a moment because it provides a theoretical lens through which to view Woodford¡¯s aim to reclaim a democratic purpose for music education. Woodford (2007, p. xiii) says only after reading Naussbaum¡¯s Upheavals of Thought was he able to appreciate