El Sistema enthusiast writes its obituary
OrchestrasThe Iowa academic Jonathan Govias who was one of the early enthusiasts for the Venezuelan music education system has now pronounced its death:
Sistema was born in the late 1990s in Venezuela as a strategy of dubious ethics to elicit government funds earmarked for social purposes for what was really an initiative of unconcealed cultural colonization entirely contrary to the historic roots and modern ambitions of the nation...
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Govias is Professor in the Music & Theatre department at Iowa State University.
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