Music has very important function in the lives of most teenagers, but there is a disjunction between music at school and music at home. Adolescent's music preferences are very heterogeneous and they can be explained by various social and individual factors. The author discusses the problem of music education in Croatian grammar schools and speaks in favour of expanding music curriculum with nonwestern musical idioms, primarily by inclusion of world music and popular music. In that way music education will create globally competent pupils. [For the complete Volume 12 proceedings, see ED597979.]