• A vintage staple-bound softcover music education book titled Surviving in General Music by Michael D. Bennett.
• The title page credits Michael D. Bennett of Memphis State University, Memphis, Tennessee, and presents the book as a resource for classroom general music instruction.
• Organized as a practical handbook, the volume offers ready-to-use listening activities, musicianship exercises, and game-based projects designed to help teachers lead young adolescents into active, thoughtful engagement with music.
• The opening section, Popular Listening Activities, begins with A Contemporary Approach to Listening Awareness (A How-To-Do-It Manual) followed by general listening guide instructions and specific guides for the songs Delta Dawn and The Entertainer.
• Classical Listening Activities include guides for The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Capriccio Espagnol, Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima by Krzysztof Penderecki, and vocal selections such as the Toreador's Song from Carmen, Every Valley from Handel's Messiah, and Schubert's The Erl King.
• Listening Games provide interactive options like Music Reactionaire, Quick Guess Music Maker Game, and Instrument Identification and Simulation Game, encouraging students to respond creatively while strengthening listening skills.
• Under Musicianship Activities the book introduces materials on note values, dynamics, and tempos in units such as Bad Stuff; A Rhythm Tutor; Mini-Comps; Operation Opera; Home Made Picture Strip Show—Billy the Kid; and You Sing Yours and I'll Sing Mine (quodlibets), many with contributions from guest authors.
• Music Quiz Games feature classroom-tested activities including Rhythms and Signs Game, Make-a-Tune Scramble Game, Musitration Board, The Pizza Wheel Game, ABC Quizzer, and The Musical Groaner Game.
• The interior pages combine typewritten instructional text with reproducible student worksheets, fill-in-the-blank questions, charts, and graphic organizers such as Feeling Reaction Chart, Word Painting Chart, rhythm graphs, musical symbol cards, and game boards.
• Teacher supplements appear after many activities, outlining objectives, step-by-step teaching procedures, suggested answers, and ideas for adapting the lessons to different class sessions.
• A glossary, index, and discography list the commercial recordings needed to carry out the listening activities, noting specific performers and record labels for works by Britten, Rimsky-Korsakov, Penderecki, Bizet, Handel, Schubert, Copland, and others.
• Physical format features a tall red softcover with an illustrated front panel reproducing "Tippy Tulip," an original woodcut by Edward Faiers of the Memphis Academy of Art, and a stapled binding along the spine.
• The copyright page states 1974 by Michael D. Bennett, with reproduction permitted for non-profit use within a purchasing school, reflecting its design as a practical classroom activity book for general music teachers.
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• Condition: This vintage 1974 staple-bound classroom activity book remains a nice and complete, usable highly-enjoyable teaching resource. The red card covers show moderate surface rubbing, scattered scratch marks, and edge and corner wear with small creases along the spine fold. Interior pages exhibit age toning and a few small foxing spots. Handwritten notes and names appear in pencil and ink on the front and rear blanks, the discography page, and a few lesson pages with some check marks in the text. Staples show light discoloration but the binding is secure so the booklet opens and closes normally without loose or missing pages seen, and all worksheets, charts, and music examples are present and fully legible.

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