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Bennett Reimer is the John W. Beattie Professor of Music Emeritus at Northwestern University, where he was chair of the Music Education Department, director of the Ph.D. program in music education and founder and director of the Center for the Study of Education and the Musical Experience.
He is the author or editor of two dozen books and more than 150 articles, chapters and reviews.
His writing, teaching and lecturing have ranged over a diversity of topics including philosophy of music education, curriculum theory, research theory, multicultural issues, musical intelligences, interdisciplinary arts principles, teacher education, international music education issues and applications of cognitive psychology to music learning. A special double issue of The Journal of Aesthetic Education, "Musings: Essays in Honor of Bennett Reimer," was published in winter 1999. He has been director of and participant in many national and international projects, and has lectured and presented keynote addresses all over the world.
Reimer received the rare "Legends of Teaching" award from the Northwestern University School of Music and an honorary doctorate from DePaul University, Chicago. Reimer is an inductee into the Music Educators Hall of Fame and recipient of the MENC Senior Researcher Award.
Clips by Bennett Reimer 
On Too Much Change
On How to Argue for the Arts
On How Difficult it is to Develop Creativity
