What Sports Understands That Musi...

What Sports Understands That Music Education Can Learn From

KevinDroe.com by Kevin Droe
S1 · E7
Aug 21, 2026
10:41

Episode notes

Sports has created experiences people actively want to participate in, watch, and belong to. Rather than resenting its cultural success, music educators might learn from it. This post explores what sports understands about audience, identity, community, lifelong participation, and multiple entry points, and asks how music education could create that same sense of connection.