Good point. Music history education in the United States is also heavily skewed towards classical (or at least where I went to school!). There's certainly nothing wrong with continuing to educate our youth on classical music, but I'd like it be a minor part of their education. Instead, like Sweden, I'd prefer there be more of a focus on rock and pop in the post World War II era. Not necessarily because it is better than other types of music, but because it is more relevant to their lives. When I took music history only a week of that school year was dedicated to popular music! The rest was on various periods of classical music...Eventually the aesthetics of Swedish music education came around to strikingly modern sensibilities. In the United States, the repertoire of primary and secondary music education still leans heavily toward the marching band. In Sweden, by contrast, rock and pop have been part of the curriculum in music schools since the 1980s, and in the 1990s courses in mixing and recording became available, too.