This study examined the effectiveness of world music pedagogy (how
music is received, learned, taught, and transmitted within its home culture) in the
middle school general music classroom in developing students' understanding of
Andean altiplano musical practice. Research questions included (a) What is the
difference in learning outcomes between students who learn to make Andean
music via traditional Western transmission methods and students who learn to
make the same Andean music via indigenous Andean transmission systems?
and (b) What evidence is there that learning through world music pedagogy can
influence the instructional culture of the general music classroom?