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An interesting topic Woodford brought up in the book was about this thing called musical equality.  This brought up a lot questions for me that really had nothing to do with the statement.  I thought of my high school experience and the social role that music played.  People forming groups of friends they would keep through-out high school based a lot on the type of music they listened to.  What would musical equality mean in this format?  If you look at it from this point of view you can't really have musical equality.  How has music you listened to shaped your life?  Did you think the music you chose to listen to was equal to other music around you?  What makes these differences?  There are a lot of questions that come up when you think about this sort of stuff and it's one of my goals as a music educator to blur the differences between the genres of music.  I think everyone should be able to appreciate all types of music in some way and not be turned off of a song just because of the genre.