With attention to the distinctive elements of ethnomusicology and music education as two important fields of scholarship and practice, their overlapping and complementary manifestations (and influences of one field upon the other) are worthy of examination. Matters of diverse content in music curricular programs require the dovetailing of the two fields, while an understanding of music and human learning demands scholars to criss-cross disciplines. Such intersections are evolving naturally and intentionally, and the resulting perspectives are emerging in classrooms and communities as well as in thoughtful research on children’s musical cultures, music cognition, music-dance and mind-body dualities, and world music pedagogy.