This book is both a celebration and extension of Paynter and Aston's ground-breaking work on creative classroom music, Sound and Silence, published in 1970. Building on the central themes of the original work the authors and contributors provide a contemporary response to the spirit and style of Sound and Silence.

Part 1 Introductions 1. Purposes and Parameter 2. John Paynter - Thinker 3. Voices Part 2 Critical Issues in Creative Music Making 1. Recontextualising Sound and Silence 2. Conceptions of the Creative Process in Music and Arts Education 3. Giving Value to Musical Creativity 4. Creativity as Ideology 5. Being and Becoming Musically Creative: A view from early childhood 6. The Pedagogies of the Creative Classroom: Towards a socially just music education 7. Music and the Making of Meaning 8. The Role of Community in Defining 21st-Century Creative Practice: A design-led approach Part 3 The Projects 1. Shapes into Music, Music into Shapes 2. Rhythms, Rhymes and Beats in Time 3. Propaganda, Protest and Politics 4. Making Music for a Space 5. Music and Place 6. Soundscapes of the Self 7. Music Technology and the Loop Sampler 8. Exploring Musical Sketchbooks 9. Repeats and Refrains 10. Concurrent Design 11. Musical Revisionism 12. Layering and Repetition 13. The One-Minute Solo 14. Rain 15. Eccentric 16. Dash and Dionysus Epilogue