... when we consider the circumstances whereby a particular set of instruments was taken up and used because the brass bands of the respective armies abandoned them at the end of the American Civil War ...
... when we acknowledge the conditions which led JAZZ pianist Billy Tipton to assume the gender identity of a man in order to sustain and further "his" career as a JAZZ musician ...
... only by engaging such issues and such problems will we prepare our students (and lest we forget, ourselves) to write with the full range of the tools they have at their disposal.