The revised edition "Music Around Us" for upper secondary education is designed on a regional scale and takes into account both the curriculum revisions of recent years and new subject-specific didactic insights. The student book meets the highest quality standards in terms of content presentation and methodological repertoire. The thematic innovations include current topics such as world religions and their musical expressions, diverse projects in the field of creative media practice (e.g., hip-hop backing band, soundscapes, sound collage, radio play, electronic dance music, animated film, musique concrète), music and politics (e.g., composing as a political statement, coping with crises in 21st-century songs, music and censorship in the GDR, reconciliation through music), as well as jazz (including improvisation, vocal jazz, comparative interpretation, big band sound, hard bop, and fusion).