An El Sistema Library

Books

Changing Lives - Tricia Tunstall
Aesthetics of Generosity - Jose Lois Hernandez-Estrada
Soul Music: The Pulse of Race and Music - Candace Allen
Venezuela: The Miracle of Music - Chefi Borzacchini
http://musicabancaribe.com/Publicaciones/Libro_digital/VenezuelaEnElCielo/EN/index.php
El Sistema: Orchestrating Venezuela's Youth - Geoffrey Baker
El Sistema: Music for Social Change - ed. Christine Witkowski
 
Websites
Eric Booth -  http://ericbooth.net/
Geoff Baker - http://tocarypensar.com/
 
Films
El Sistema: Music to Change Life (2009)
El Sistema (2008)
Tochar Y Luchar (2010)

Papers
·         Booth, Eric and Tunstall, Tricia, “Five Encounters with El Sistema International: A Venezuelan Marvel becomes a Global Movement,” November, 2013, http://ericbooth.net/five-encounters-with-el-sistema-international/
·         Silberman, Lauren, Globalizing El Sistema: Exploring the Growth and Development of El Sistema inspired programs around the world (June, 2013) Master’s Thesis
·         Lawrence Scripp , Devin Ulibarri & Robert Flax (2013): Thinking Beyond the Myths and Misconceptions of Talent: Creating Music Education Policy that Advances Music's Essential Contribution to Twenty-First-Century Teaching and Learning, Arts Education Policy Review, 114:2, 54-102
·         Govias, Jonathan, “Hard to Reach, Harder to Let Go: a practice of social action through music inspired by Venezuela’s el Sistema”, Reaching Out: Music Education with Hard to Reach Children and Young People (2013):32-40
·         Booth, Eric, “ The Eye Begins to See: Reflections upon a Third Visit to El Sistema,” http://ericbooth.net/the-eye-begins-to-see-reflections-upon-a-third-visit-to-el-sistema/
·         Booth, Eric, “Eyes on the Right Prize: Learner Motivation in El Sistema-inspired Programs,” December, 2012, http://ericbooth.net/eyes-on-the-right-prize-2/
·         DeSilva, Ciera and Sharp, Greg, El Sistema: Challenging Norms through Music, (October, 2012)
·         Booth, Eric, “The Fundamentals of El Sistema,” January, 2012, http://ericbooth.net/thefundamentalsofelsistema/
·         Booth, Eric, “The Generous Laboratory: El Sistema-inspired Programs as part of the Music Education Ecosystem,”
http://ericbooth.net/thegenerouslaboratory/
·         Shieh, Eric, “Our Grain of Sand:” Thoughts on Venezuela’s El Sistema, (2012)
·         Uy, Michael, "Venezuela's National Music Education Program El Sistema: Its
Interactions with Society and its Participants' Engagement in Praxis." Music and
Arts in Action 4.1 (2012): 521.
·         Govias, Jonathan, “The 5 Fundamentals of El Sistema,” Canadian Music Educator, September (2011):21-23, http://jonathangovias.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/govias-five-fundamentals-of-el-sistema.pdf
·         Booth, Eric, “El Sistema’s Open Secrets,” May, 2010, http://ericbooth.net/el-sistemas-open-secrets/
·         Booth, Eric, “El Sistema First Observations,” June, 2008, http://ericbooth.net/el-sistema-first-observations/
 
Papers by El Sistema Fellows
·         An Inquiry into Creating Intentional Social Change through Ensemble-based Music Programs (May, 2014) http://sistemafellows.typepad.com/my-blog/2014/05/an-inquiry-into-creating-intentional-social-change-through-ensemble-based-music-programs.html
·         Perspectives on El Sistema (February, 2014) http://sistemafellows.typepad.com/my-blog/2014/02/perspectives-on-el-sistema.html
·         Say Yes to Assess: Exploring El Sistema-inspired Assessment Practice (May, 2013) http://sistemafellows.typepad.com/my-blog/2013/05/an-exploration-in-el-sistema-inspired-assessment-practice.html
·         Rodas, Alvaro, A Model for Community Participation in the Performing Arts: Social Action through Music and the Internationalization of the Venezuela Orchestra System, (2006) Masters’ Thesis

Research

El Sistema and Sistema-Inspired Programmes: A Literature Review of research, evaluation, and critical debates - http://sistemaglobal.org/literature-review/

Inter-American Development Bank
Resources
The Power of Music: P-5 Teaching inspired by El Sistema http://www.learner.org/workshops/k5music/about.html


Some great videos
Side by Side (El Sistema Sweden) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzeVhribHyM#!
El Sistema: Music to Change Life - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=276oR_tEmbs
The El Sistema Music Revolution - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uintr2QX-TU
Dantes Rameau, Music as an Instrument of Social Change - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RAFiBJG9xc

Training Institutions
New England Conservatory - http://necmusic.edu/sistema-fellows
North Park University – http://www.northpark.edu/Academics/School-of-Music/Undergraduate-Programs/Music-for-Social-Change/

University of Maryland, Baltimore County - http://www.umbc.edu/music/programs/entrepreneurship.php

University of Alaska Southeast - http://juneaumusicmatters.blogspot.com/2015/02/jamm-juneau-symphony-partner-with-uas.html
 The Ensemble Newsletter
The North American El Sistema-inspired movement - http://ericbooth.net/the-ensemble/


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