Music of the Past, Educating Voices of the Future
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MEMA-Music (Motivation, Encouragement, and Music Appreciation)

MEMA-Music draws on the most impactful popular music ever created, to teach youth historical awareness and values which facilitate social harmony, while empowering them with the knowledge and skills necessary for life in the 21st-Century.

Our Mission: By learning from the past and raising young people's voices today, MEMA-Music aims to inspire youth with the message that they can become successful global citizens, with a positive vision of the future.

Our Programs

MEMA’s program aims to engage students in a dynamic and engaging process of learning how social justice movements, socially conscious music, and public voice, specifically during the sixties, brought about transformative changes in American lives today.

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Our Goals

MEMA's program includes enduring understandings that provide for the study of multicultural understanding, critical thinking, exercising sound reasoning in understanding and making complex choices, how people create and change structures of power, authority, and governance, interactions among individuals, groups, and institutions and understanding the connections, conflicts, and changes among systems.

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Music Education Benefits

"Music lights up almost every area of the brain, which shouldn’t be a surprise since it makes people tap their feet, encourages the recollection of vivid memories and has the potential to lighten the mood." — Your Brain on Music, Science News Staff, August 14th, 2010; Vol. 178 #4.

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Contact Us

Jeanne Warsaw-Gazga
Founder / Executive Director
p- 773-447-1963

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