History
Notes
Newsletter
of the MENC History
Special Research
Interest Group
October 1999
Editor, Marie McCarthy,
History SRIG Chair (1998-2000)
Chair-Elect, Carolyn
Livingston (1998-2000)
Notable Changes in the
HSRIG Community
Greetings to all members! There are some notable changes
and developments in the HSRIG community since the last
newsletter. In these latter months of 1999 we are acutely
aware of endings and new beginnings, and acknowledge that
in our community we also witness a significant ending and a
new beginning. The Bulletin of Historical Research in Music
Education, the first journal of historical research in
music education, had its final issue in May 1999. We are
deeply indebted to George N. Heller, whose vision brought
this journal into existence in 1980 and whose persistence
and dedication maintained this scholarly forum through its
twenty volumes. George continues his editorship with the
new Journal of Historical Research in Music Education
and is assisting in the transition of The Bulletin to a new
location. Following is a description of the new
arrangements for the publication.
Beginning in fall 1999, The Bulletin of Historical Research
in Music Education will be published by Arizona State
University, re-titled the Journalof Historical Research in
Music Education (JHRME). The JHRME will feature a new look,
two editors (Jere Humphreys and George Heller), a
publication editor (Jeffrey Bush), a book review editor
(Marie McCarthy), and an expanded editorial committee with
members from several foreign countries.
For information on subscriptions to the JHRME, back issues
of The Bulletin, or article submissions, contact JHRME,
School of Music, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
85287-0405. For information on book review
subscriptions, contact Marie McCarthy, School of Music,
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
There is another notable change in The Sonneck Society
which is now called The Society for American Music.
See the web site at for details on membership. The
Sonneck Society was incorporated in 1975 in honor of Oscar
Sonneck, early Chief of the Music Division in the Library
of Congress. The Society "seeks to stimulate the
appreciation, performance, creation, and study of American
music in all its historical and contemporary styles and
contexts, including art and popular music, the musics of
ethnic groups and minorities, and the full range of
activities associated with music in North America,
including Central America and the Caribbean."
Publications of the Society include American Music, a
bulletin, and membership directory. Conferences in
the year 2000 will be held in Charleston, SC, March 1-5,
and the Mega Conference (along with AMS, CMS, SEM and other
groups) in Toronto, November 1-5.
A newly established "history of music education website,"
located at www.utc.edu/~wlee, is devoted to the history of
music education. "It is designed to help scholars in
the history of music education and specialist-scholars in
music educational history. Though the site emphasizes
electronic resources, it also includes a variety of
representative books, articles, and bibliographies relating
to how people have taught and learned music. An
effort has been made to present significant recent
publications and most electronic resources.
Naturally, choices of sources to include on the site are
idiosyncratic to the manager of the site and his
contributors and no claim to completeness in made." This
site is supported by the Music Department of the University
of Tennessee at Chattanooga. We are indebted to William R.
Lee who initiated this project and is willing to serve as
site manager, and to establish a website for the HSRIG at
the MENC website.
HSRIG members have changed positions in recent months and
we wish them every success. Roger Rideout, former
Southwestern Division Chair of the HSRIG, is now
Coordinator of Music Education in the Department of Music
and Dance, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Terese Volk, former Eastern Division Chair, is now
Assistant Professor in the Department of Music, Wayne State
University, Detroit. Patricia Costa Kim, who earlier this
year completed her dissertation at the University of
Washington, "Making Music Their Own: School Music,
Community, and Standards of Excellence in Seattle,
1960-75", is now Director of Education and Community
Programs with the Seattle Symphony.
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Looking Ahead to the
Britton Symposium and the
MENC Biennial Conference,
Washington, DC
The Historian's Perspective: A Symposium In Tribute to
Allen P. Britton
The music education community will honor the distinguished
music educator and scholar Allen P. Britton in a symposium
to be held on Monday, March 6, 2000, at the University of
Maryland, College Park, preceding the MENC National
Biennial In-Service Conference in Washington, DC, March
8-11. The forum is open to historical topics in music
education, in addition to papers that pay tribute to Allen
Britton, particularly the way he brought historical
perspective to the current practice of music education.
Each author will be allotted twenty minutes for
presentation, followed by ten minutes of discussion. Papers
presented (including longer versions of the symposium
papers) will be considered for publication in a special
issue of the Journal of Historical Research in Music
Education. Interested scholars should submit a one-page
abstract to Marie McCarthy by December 1, 1999, at the
following address: School of Music, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD 20742, or by e-mail at
Participants may stay at the conference hotels in
Washington, DC, at the conference rate, and travel to the
University of Maryland, College Park, by Metro train; or,
participants will find accommodation at the Inn and
Conference Center where the Symposium will be held, or at
nearby hotels and motels in College Park. (See website
listed below for further information.)
Please note that there is no registration fee to attend
this Symposium, but those planning to attend are required
to send a written confirmation to Marie McCarthy by January
15, 2000: School of Music, University of Maryland, College
Park, MD 20742
Symposium program and further information will be made
available at the University of Maryland Performing Arts
Library website:
"Piano 300: Celebrating Three Centuries of People and
Pianos"
Some members have made inquiries about the "Piano 300"
exhibit to be held at the Smithsonian Institution,
beginning in March, 2000. Although the exhibit does not
open officially until March 9, MENC has arranged a special
tour for conference attendants on Wednesday, March 8. A web
site for the exhibit is in progress. For further
information about the exhibit or the tour, contact Valeska
Hilbig in the Public Affairs Office at the Smithsonian
Institution (202) 357-1300, or Mike Blakeslee at MENC,
1-800-828-0229.
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HSRIG Session, MENC
Biennial Conference
The History SRIG session is scheduled for 8:00-9:00AM, on
Friday, March 10. I have changed the format of the session
this year on two fronts, (although the business meeting
will remain part of the session). First, we are planning
one principal speaker and considerable time for discussion;
also, our speaker, Barbara Finkelstein, is an educational
historian from outside the HSRIG community. The session is
titled "Crossing Borders, Expanding Boundaries: The New
Historiography of Education," and will include a
presentation of recent developments in educational
historiography that have implications for the scope,
content and methodology of historical research in music
education.
Barbara Finkelstein, Professor in the Department of
Education Policy, Planning and Administration and Director
of the International Center for the Study of Education
Policy and Human Values, University of Maryland at College
Park, is a widely published cultural historian who has
received an array of awards and fellowships--the American
Educational Studies Association Book of the Year award for
Regulated Children/Liberated Children: Education in
Psychohistorical Perspective; Henry Allen Moe Prize for
Excellence in the Arts for an essay entitled "Casting
Networks of Good Influence;" American Press Association
Award for the best article of the year for "Reimagining
Civic Education;" a Japan Society for the Promotion of
Science Fellowship at the University of Tokyo and National
Endowment for the Humanities Senior Fellowship.
Her published work has explored relationships between
education and culture, with a special focus on the history
and fate of minority children in schools, classrooms, and
communities in the United States. Her publications and
presentations have been translated into multiple languages
and she has participated as keynote speaker at many
international conferences. She is currently president
of the History of Education Society, was Vice President of
Division F of AERA, president of the American Educational
Studies Association, founding editor of Issues in
Education, (now AERJ) and lectures extensively on issues of
compelling historical and cultural importance--the
evolution and condition of childhood, minority group
learning, and cultural relations.
Following are selected articles authored by Finkelstein
which you may wish to read prior to the HSRIG session:
(1)
"Education Historians as Mythmakers," Review of Research in
Education 18 (1992): 255-297.
(2) "Incorporating
Childhood into the History of Education," The Journal
of Educational Thought XVIII, 1 (April 1984): 21-43.
(3) "Revealing Childhood, Adolescence, and Youth in the
History of Education: Approaches in the 1990s."
Paedogica Historica: International Journal of the
History of Education XXXII (1996): 453-474.
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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
HSRIG Distinguished Service Award
Deadline: December 1,
1999
The HSRIG has established a distinguished service award to
honor individuals who have made significant contributions
to historical research in music education. Members
are free to nominate anyone (self-nominations accepted) so
long as the nominee meets the qualifications described
below.
Nominees music have a record of at least ten years of
ongoing significant contributions to historical research in
music education, including high quality work in one or more
of the following activities:
1. Publication/presentation of scholarly research
related to the history of music education;
2.
Collection/publication of primary source material related
to the history of music education;
3. Editorial
service to journals/other publications related to history
of music education;
4. Encouragement/mentorship to
students and other researchers interested in historical
research in music education;
5. Service to
HSRIG/other organizations related to historical research in
music education;
6. Demonstrated excellence in the
teaching of the history of music education.
Applications should include a letter of nomination and
nominee's curriculum vita. Send information to the
Chair Elect by December 1, 1999. Carolyn Livingston,
Department of Music, University of Rhode Island, Kingston,
RI 02881. E-mail: musiced@uriacc.uri.edu
The recipient will be chosen the HSRIG Nominating Committee
(Carolyn Livingston, Chair). The award (certificate
or plaque) will be presented at the biennial HSRIG meeting
held in conjunction with the MENC National conference in
Washington, DC.
Recipients of the award have been George N. Heller in 1994,
Allen P. Britton in 1996, and Michael Mark in 1998.
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HSRIG Chair-Elect for
2000-02
Deadline: December 1, 1999.
Description of the position: The HSRIG National
Chair-Elect shall assist the National Chair in organizing
the activities of the History SRIG. After a two-year
term (2000-02), the Chair-Elect will become the Chair for
2002-04. Nominees should be HSRIG members who are active in
historical research in music education.
SRIG Chairs may not currently hold any other national
leadership posts in the Society for Research in Music
Education. National leadership posts are defined as
members of the MERC Executive Committee, JMRE Editorial
Committee, or Update Editorial Committee.
Send letters of nomination to the Chair-Elect, Carolyn
Livingston, by December 1, 1999. The Chair-Elect will
be selected by the HSRIG Nominating Committee. Past
National Chairs:
George Heller, 1978-1980 William Lee, 1990-1992
James Scholten, 1980-1982 Mark Fonder, 1992-1994
Michael
Mark, 1982-1984 Hoyt LeCroy, 1994-1996
Melvin Platt,
1984-1986 Sondra Howe, 1996-1998
Charles Gary,
1986-1988 Marie McCarthy, 1998-2000
Thomas Hill,
1988-1990 Carolyn Livingston, 2000-2002
Send nominations to Carolyn Livingston, HSRIG Chair-Elect,
Department of Music, University of Rhode Island, Kingston,
RI 02881. E-mail: musiced@uriacc.uri.edu
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Remembering a
Significant American Music Historian
Alan Clark Buechner, 16 April 1926-10 December 1998
On December 10, 1998, Alan C. Buechner, one of the founding
members of the Sonneck Society for American Music, died at
a convalescent center in Woburn, Massachusetts. He was born
in El Paso, Texas on April 16, 1926. He had been
Professor of Music at the Copland School of Music, Queens
College, CUNY, from 1967 to his retirement in 1992.
Prior appointments include Harvard University, the
University of Texas, and the University of Hartford.
His study of "Yankee Singing in Schools and the Golden Age
of Choral Music in New England, 1760-1800" (Ed.D.
dissertation, Harvard 1960), laid the foundation for many
subsequent studies of that popular institution.
During the past two decades his investigation into American
revivalism of the 1840s, into 19th-century American music
and dance as reflected by the fiddle tune collection of
W.S. Mount, and into the music activities of the painter
Thomas Hart Benton have been the subjects of papers
delivered at meetings of the American Folklore Society; the
Old Sturbridge Conference "Joyful Sounds;" the Berea
Conference on Rural Hymnody; the Stony Brook Conference
"Catching the Tune;" the American Musicological Society;
the Violin Society of America; and the Sonneck
Society. He had also lectured on various topics in
American music at Emory University, the University of
Kansas, the University of Missouri at Kansas City, and Bard
College. The recording The New England Harmony, a
collection of early American choral music (Folkways FA
3-2377) was produced under his direction at Old Sturbridge
Village in 1964. Articles and reviews have been
published in the Journal of the American Musicological
Association; in Symposium, the Journal of the College Music
Society; in American Music; the Journal of the Sonneck
Society; the Music Educators Journal, and the Dublin
Seminar for New England Folklore. A founder and
officer of the Sonneck Society for American Music, he
served on the Board and as its vice-president as well as
chairing the Nominating, Bylaws, and American Music in
American Schools and Colleges committees. In October 1998,
the Society for American Music Board awarded him the
Distinguished Service Citation, the Society's highest award
for members.
Reports of Past Conferences
The 3rd annual seminar on Historical Research in
Music Education was held at the University of London
Institute of Education on 2 July 1999. The papers included:
Music in Adult Education in Mechanics Institutes, 1825-1875
(Jana Sims); Paul David, John Farmer and the English Public
Schools (Michael Spencer); Choirboys in Evora and Vila
Vicosa, Portugal, in the late 16th and early 17th
centuries: duties and training (Michael Ryan); Edmund
Priestley: the development of a music policy in a Local
Education Authority (Paul Mann).
Submitted by Gordon Cox, University of Reading, UK
Robin Stevens (Deakin University, School of Social and
Cultural Studies, Melbourne, Australia) presented a paper
entitled "Emily Patton and Tonic Sol-fa: The Influence of
an Australian Immigrant to Japan on Music Education during
the Latter Half of the Meiji Period" at the recent
Twenty-First International Standing Conference for History
of Education which was held at the University of Sydney,
July 12-16, 1999. The abstract of the paper and a
copy of the full text of the paper may be obtained via
email from Robin at
Submitted by Robin Stevens, Deakin University, Australia
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Call For Conference
Papers
The Society for American Music (formerly the Sonneck
Society) will hold a special conference 1-5 November 2000
in Toronto, Ontario, as one of fifteen music scholarly
societies participating in Toronto 2000: Musical
Intersections. Proposals for papers, concerts,
lecture-performances, and full sessions are invited, as are
proposals for presentations in innovative and imaginative
formats. The Program Committee is particularly
interested in considering papers or sessions that have
representation from more than one of the scholarly
societies involved in the conference; already built into
the SAM program are several joint sessions with both the
International Association for the Study of Popular Music
(IASPM) and the Historic Brass Society. We also
invite truly cross-disciplinary papers and sessions that
combine musical understanding with literature, history,
theatre history, cultural studies, sociology, art,
anthropology, dance, film studies, American studies, and
other areas of scholarly inquiry. [SAM Special
Interest Groups will not have meeting times at this
conference, but are welcome to submit session proposals;
particularly appealing will be joint sessions with similar
special interest groups from other societies or
interdisciplinary sessions.] Proposals involving any
aspect of American music and music in America are welcome.
Individual presentations of all types normally are limited
to twenty minutes in length, and full sessions typically
consist of three individual twenty-minute presentations.
However, if the material warrants and if sufficient
justification is provided, the Committee will also
entertain proposals for longer presentations, especially if
they include performances or are truly
interdisciplinary. Submissions for papers consist of
eight (8) copies of a proposal of no more than 500 words,
and one (1) copy of a 250-word abstract suitable for
publication in the conference program. Because all
submissions (except for panel sessions) are evaluated
blind, proposers' name(s), address(es), phone number(s),
and e-mail address(es) should appear on only ONE copy of
the proposal. The abstract for publication should be
single-spaced and should include the presenter's name and
affiliation between the title and the abstract text.
For formal sessions, panels, or proposals involving unusual
formats, the proposer(s) should include eight copies of an
additional statement explaining the format and overall
rationale for the session, the importance of the topic, and
the significance of the proposed grouping of papers.
The organizer of the session should gather the proper
number of individual proposals and abstracts from session
members, and submit them in a single envelope. Formal
session proposals are welcome, but each abstract will be
evaluated individually, and the Committee reserves the
right to reconfigure the organization and makeup of such
proposed sessions, or to accept individually any of the
proposed papers. Proposals for panel sessions that
deal with issues of general interest are also solicited;
these should be clearly labeled as panel sessions.
The sessions should consist of brief position papers (of
not more than 10 minutes duration) by each of the
participants in order to leave ample time for
discussion. Organizers of panel discussions should
submit eight copies of a one-page prospectus that provides
an outline of the proposed topic, describes the
significance of the panel, and explains why each panelist
has been chosen. Panel proposals will be accepted or
rejected as intact entities.
Proposals for lecture-recitals or for concerts (either
independent performances or those aligned with a session)
should be submitted to Mark Tucker, SAM representative to
the Toronto 2000 Joint Concert Committee. Submissions for
lecture-recitals should include two copies of the 500-word
abstract, one copy of the 250-word program abstract, and at
least one copy of a recording of the proposed performer(s),
of sufficient length to permit evaluation. (Please
indicate if you wish for the tape to be returned.)
Proposals for concerts should consist of a recording (as
above) and two copies of a short description of the concert
(including duration, a list of repertory, rationale for the
concert, and--if appropriate--how the concert fits with a
proposed formal session submitted to the program
committee). Concerts can be proposed for mid-day or evening
venues.
Proposers must also indicate special needs such as
audio-visual equipment, music stands, rehearsal space,
etc. All submissions must include two (2)
self-addressed stamped envelopes. Presenters must register
for the full conference. Any music scholars must be
members of at least one of the societies represented at the
conference. No individual may appear more than twice.
Appearances include delivering a paper, participating in a
daytime, programmatic panel, giving a
lecture-demonstration, or functioning as a chair-organizer
of or respondent to a session. (Not counting as an
appearance are such extra-programmatic offerings as
unofficial interest-group meetings, standing committee
presentations, non-programmatic concert performances, or
serving as an appointed chair of a session.) All
proposals must be postmarked by 8 January 2000.
Submissions by fax or e-mail will NOT be accepted.
Fifteen music-scholarly societies will meet at the Toronto
2000 conference, including (in addition to SAM), the
American Musicological Society, College Music Society,
Society for Music Theory, Society for Ethnomusicology, the
American Musical Instrument Society, Historic Brass
Society, Society for Music Perception and Cognition,
Association for Technology in Music Instruction, Lyrica
Society for Word-Music Relationships, International
Association for the Study of Popular Music (US and Canadian
chapters), Canadian University Music Society, Canadian
Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation
Centres, and Canadian Society for Traditional Music.
Paper and session materials should be sent to:
Prof.
Katherine K. Preston, Chair
SAM Program Committee for
Toronto 2000
Department of Music
The College of William
and Mary
P.O. Box 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23185-8795
Performance proposals should be sent to:
Prof. Mark Tucker
SAM Representative to the Joint Concert Committee
114
Deerwood Drive
Williamsburg, VA 23188
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Recent
Publications
Books
Mark, Michael L., and Charles L. Gary. A History of
American Music Education. 2d ed. Reston, VA: Music
Educators National Conference, 1999. Available from MENC,
1806 Robert Fulton Drive, Reston, VA 20191, or
online: www.menc.org. The cost is $25.00.
From its roots in antiquity, through the days of the
Spanish explorers and the earliest colonists, up to the
present, A History of American Music Education takes you on
an insightful journey through the evolution of school music
instruction. Along the way, it examines the musical,
educational, philosophical, and social aspects of American
history and their effect on the development of music
education in this country.
McCarthy, Marie. Passing It On: The Transmission of Music
in Irish
Culture. Cork, Ireland: Cork University Press, 1999.
An interpretation of education's role in shaping the
quality of musical and cultural life in nineteenth- and
twentieth-century Ireland. As a national study it will
appeal to those interested in the history of Irish music,
culture and education. In the broader context, the study
contributes to our understanding of how music's
transmission is underpinned by the dominant ideologies,
values and media of the time.
Pincus, Andrew L. Tanglewood: The Clash Between Tradition
and
Change. With a foreword by Phyllis Curtin. Boston:
Northeastern University Press, 1999.
Articles
"Farewell to a Music Education Pioneer" [Irving Cheyette].
Music Educators Journall 85 (May 1999): 12.
Gohari, Carol Elaine. "George Frederick Bristow: Incidental
Gleanings." The Sonneck Society for American Music Bulletin
25 (Summer 1999): 37-39.
Hines, Brenda. "The Influence of Suzuki on American String
Education." The Instrumentalist 53 (January 1999): 50-54.
McCarthy, Marie, "Ubuntu: A Metaphor for the Origins, Role
and Development of the International Society for
Music Education." International Journal of Music Education
33 (1999): 46-56.
Palmquist, Jane. "From ASTA and NSOA to ASTA with NSOA."
American String Teacher 49 (May 1999): 60-69.
Shiraishi, Fumiko. "Calvin Brainerd Cady: Thought and
Feeling in the Study of Music." Journal of Research in
Music Education 47 (Summer 1999): 150-162.
Dissertations and
Theses
Al-Ramzi, Saqer M. "The History, Development, and
Curriculum of the
Institute of
Musical Studies and the Higher Institute of Musical
Art in Kuwait."
Ph. D. diss., University of Miami, 1998.
Christianson,
Donald G. "The Life and Choral Techniques of Douglas Reeve
McEwen:
Conductor, Educator." DMA diss., Arizona State
University,
1998.
Stacke, Robert J. "The Emergence of Music Education
in the Barrios of
Managua,
Nicaragua." Ph.D. diss., University of Minnesota, 1998.
Thomas, Duanne Lee. "Kenneth I. Bray: His Contribution to
Music
Education." Master's thesis, University of Western Ontario,
1998.
Book Reviews
Lee, William R. Review of Luther Whiting Mason:
International Music
Education,by Sondra Wieland Howe. History of Education
Quarterly 39 (Fall 1999): 352-354.
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History SRIG National
Officers (1998-2000)
(1) Chair: Marie McCarthy, School of Music, University of
Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. E-mail:
mm148@umail.umd.edu
(2) Chair-Elect: Carolyn Livingston,
Department of Music, University of Rhode Island, Kingston,
RI 02881. E-mail: musiced@uriacc.uri.edu
(3) Past
Chair: Sondra Wieland Howe, 135 Chevy Chase Drive, Wayzata,
MN 55391 E-mail: howex009@tc.umn.edu
(4) Eastern
Division Chair: Patrick M. Jones, Fredonia School of Music,
State University of New York, Fredonia, NY 14063
(5) North
Central Division Chair: Jean Fickett, 1175D Arbor Drive,
East Lansing, MI 48823
(6) Northwestern Division Chair:
Gary Nakayama, 14402 144th St. E, Orting,
WA 98360
(7)
Southern Division Chair: James T. McRaney, 2636 Whiteleigh
Court, Atlanta, GA 30345. E-mail: LMcRaney@aol.com
(8)
Southwestern Division Chair: vacant
(9) Western Division
Chair: Aubrey Penman, 4333 Alderwood Way, Sacramento, CA
95864