Pop! goes the curriculum: songs to inspire primary school children

Keir Starmer is on a personal mission to promote music to the under-11s. From rock’n’roll to Jonathan Richman, our writers suggest songs for an alternative schooling• Charlotte Higgins: ‘Arts funding has collapsed under 14 years of Tory rule. Here are three ways Labour can fix it’Rock’n’roll is nearly 70 years old: it can just sound arcane and distant to ears trained on 21st-century pop. An effective crash course in its revolutionary importance, how it ch