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)
A Time of
Celebration for the HSRIG Community
In the last
issue of the Newsletter I noted changes that were occurring
in the HSRIG community. Reflecting on those changes and
developments I realize that there is much to celebrate at
this time and I wish to end my term as HSRIG Chair on that
note. With the recent publication of the first issue of
the
Journal of Historical Research in Music
Education we celebrate
the twenty volumes of the Bulletin of
Historical Research in Music Education
that
established and nurtured scholarship in the history of
music education. As we close one chapter and move on to
another we look forward to expanding the field of research,
in terms of both content and methodology. Congratulations
to Jere Humphreys, George Heller, Jeffrey Bush, and the
Arizona State University staff on the publication of the
first issue under the new title.
We
are delighted to learn that an historical dissertation was
awarded runner-up (one of two runners-up) in the
1998-1999
Outstanding Dissertation Award in Music Education
competition
sponsored by the Council for Research in Music Education at
the University of Illinois: Christopher Bagby Samuel, "A
Biography of Warren Martin: Westminster Choir College's
Professor of Music," Arizona State University, 1998. The
author will receive the Award during the MENC National
Conference in Washington, DC, on March
9.
We will honor
and celebrate the distinguished career of Allen P. Britton
in
"The Historianís Perspective: A Symposium in Tribute to
Allen P. Britton" which will take
place at the University of Maryland, College Park, on March
6. The range of topics and the scope of scholarship evident
in the papers to be presented reflect the growth in
historical research since Allen Britton began to promote it
in the 1950s, especially during his time as editor of the
Journal of Research in Music Education. For further
information on the event and a description of the program
please see the following website:
http://www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/MUSIC/brittsym.html
If you are
planning to attend the Symposium and have not contacted me,
please do so by March 1. (mm148@umail.umd.edu) If you are
unable to attend and wish to send greetings to Allen
Britton, please forward your text to my e-mail address and
I will have it included in a Book of Greetings that we are
preparing to send him after the event.
The
History SRIG meeting at the MENC
National Conference in Washington, D. C., will be held in
the Capitol room at the Omni Shoreham on Friday March 10,
8-9AM. Barbara Finkelstein, Professor of Education,
University of Maryland, College Park, will address the
topic of "Crossing Borders, Expanding Boundaries: The New
Historiography of Education." (See History Notes, October
1999 for details of session.)
Nominations
for the History SRIG Chair-Elect
The
duties of the National Chair, as outlined in the History
SRIG by-laws, are:
1.
Management and general affairs of the HSRIG
2.
Appointment of Division Chairs
3.
Appointment of Chairs of Working Committees
4.
The coordination or writing of meeting proposals to the
MERC's SRIG Coordinator
5.
Presentation of a biennial report to the MERCís SRIG
Coordinator
6.
Appointment of a Nominating Committee for the National
Chair-Elect
7.
Serve as the liaison with MERC and with MENC in
general
8.
General membership development
At
the History SRIG meeting those present will vote on the
following nominees for the History SRIG Chair-Elect
(2000-02).
James
T. McRaney has taught for
forty years, and is presently the Coordinator of Music
Education at Reinhardt College in Waleska, Georgia. He
served as adjunct instructor in music education at Mercer
University in Atlanta, and taught at the University of
Georgia. In 1983, he was named Georgiaís Teacher of the
Year by the Georgia Department of Education. He is a
founding member of the Georgia Teachers of the Year
Association, and served as Executive Director of that group
for seven years.
James served in
many roles in the Georgia Music Educators Association,
including President and state Choral Chair. He was
elected President of the Southern Division of MENC, and in
that role served on the National Executive Board during the
period of the adoption of the national standards. He has
also served as Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Georgia
Music Educators Association. He is currently in his second
term as Southern Division Chair of the History SRIG.
He is GMEA Historian and chair of the newly created GMEA
Archives Committee. In this role, he is directing a search
for music education materials for a permanent display in
the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and Museum. His 1993
dissertation, A History
of the Georgia Music Educators Association:
1922-1993, led to the
collection of much historical documentation of the
association, including his taped aural interviews of all
living past presidents and executive directors of the
association. Subsequently, his materials have served
as research tools for two additional historical
dissertation preparations.
For MENC, James
has been a contributor to two publications - Leadership
Guide for State Music Education Associations (1986) and
Performance Standards for Music: Grades PreK-12
(1996). He is presently completing the history of the
Southern Division of MENC for a book that he is editing,
The Seventy-Fifth Anniversary History of the Southern
Division of MENC, which will also include brief state
histories furnished by the respective historians in the
division. In 1998, he presented a review of this
preparation to the History SRIG meeting in Phoenix. Several
of his historical research articles have been printed in
the Georgia Music News.
Roger
Rideout is Professor of
Music Education at the University of Massachusetts where he
coordinates the music education program. He is a
native of Missouri who spent the last twenty years teaching
music education courses at Loyola University in New Orleans
and at the University of Oklahoma. He has published
over twenty articles in music education periodicals and,
presently, is working on a chapter for the upcoming second
edition of the Handbook of
Research in Music Teaching and
Learning.His doctoral
dissertation on Granville Stanley Hall and music education
(University of Illinois, 1978) began a lifelong interest in
the historical and intellectual foundations to music
education in America. He teaches courses in research
techniques, philosophy of music education and the role of
music in film. He served as History SRIG chair in the
Southwest Division while in Oklahoma and in the Southeast
Division while at Loyola University. He is published twice
in the Bulletin of
Historical Research in Music
Education.
Music
Education History at the Regional
Level
At
the HSRIG meeting on March 10, we will distribute a
questionnaire asking those present for suggestions for
developing and documenting activity in music education
history at the regional level. Following is the paragraph
from the HSRIG By-laws on the duties of the Regional
Chairs, and below is a description of a vibrant and ongoing
state project in music education
history.
Six Division
Chairs shall assist the National Chair. Their duties
shall include:
1.
Organizing Divisional meetings.
2.
Organizing displays and special projects at the Divisional
level
3.
Working to encourage the appointment of State Historians
within each Division
4.
Working with State Historians and the National Chair in
general membership development
5.
Writing a report consisting of a minimum of 200 words on
division activities to be included in the National Chairís
biennial report
6.
Advising the National Chair
7.
Assuming other duties as directed by the National
Chair
The
History of Music and Music Education in Rhode Island
Collection
Rhode Island
has had an impact on music and music education in America
since colonial times. The History of Music and Music
Education in Rhode Island Collection was started in 1992
when graduate students at the University of Rhode Island
were assigned a research paper on some aspect of Rhode
Island's history of music or music education. The project
is part of a course, Research in Music, taught by Carolyn
Livingston, and offered every three semesters. New papers
are added to the collection each time the course is taught.
The list of possible subjects for future research continues
to grow. Papers completed in December 1999 include the
following topics: William Billings: His Time in Rhode
Island; The History of the Cumberland Instrumental Music
Program; Newport Gardner: America's First African American
Music Educator; Andrew Law: American Tunesmith; The History
of the Lusitana Portuguese American Band; Charles Theodore
Pachelbel and His Tenure as Organist at Newport's Trinity
Church; and The Life and Achievements of Albert Augustus
Stanley. A list of earlier topics that are included in the
collection may be found at the website,
http://www.uri.edu/artsci/mus/faculty/ripapers.html
The entire
project was described in the January 1999 edition of
the Bulletin of
Historical Research in Music Education,
Vol. XX, number
2, in Livingston's article, "The History of Music and Music
Education in Rhode Island: A Project for Graduate
Students." Scholars who would like further information
about the project or a copy of a paper in the collection
are welcome to email Carolyn Livingston at
musiced@uri.edu
Publishing
Your Research.
The
Journal of Historical Research in Music
Educationpublishes
articles and reviews pertinent in any way to the history of
music education. Authors should submit four copies of the
manuscript on 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper, typewritten and double
spaced. Manuscripts submitted as articles and reviews
should conform to A Manual for Writers of Term Papers,
Theses, and Dissertations, 6th ed., revised by John
Grossman and Alice Bennett (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1996). Use numbered endnotes (footnotes) rather than
parenthetical references. To preserve anonymity in the
review process, authors should place their names,
addresses, and institutional affiliations on the title page
only. Authors of manuscripts (articles and reviews)
accepted for publication will be required to submit the
material on a computer disk. Any author submitting a
manuscript based on a master's thesis or doctoral
dissertation should indicate that fact in a cover letter.
Manuscripts should not be submitted simultaneously to more
than one journal. Material contained in submitted
manuscripts should not have been published previously,
either in whole or in part. Send manuscripts and queries
to: JHRME, Jere T. Humphreys, School of Music, Arizona
State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-0405 . Submit book
reviews to: Marie McCarthy, School of Music, University of
Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 mm148@umail.umd.edu
The annual
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individuals, US$20.00; institutions, US$40.00. Annual
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Harry
Price, editor of the Journal of Research in Music
Education, brings our attention to the following change in
the Instructions to Contributors for JRME. It used to read,
"the entire manuscriptÖ should not exceed 20 twenty pages."
The revised Instructions read: "The entire manuscriptÖ
generally should not exceed 20 pages." That one word change
opens the possibility for somewhat longer manuscripts,
should the content warrant it.
Music
Education Research is a new
international refereed journal (Issue No. 1, March 1999)
that includes qualitative and quantitative research
methodologies. MER will include sociological studies
and philosophical discourse and is especially interested in
encouraging research on "music teaching and learning in
styles and traditions outside the European 'classical'
tradition." For information on manuscript submission,
contact the editor, Sarah Hennessy, Music Education
Research Lecturer in Music Education at the University of
Exeter, S.J.E.Hennessy@exeter.ac.uk The Book Review Editor
is Liz Mellor, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2
2PH, UK. The Editorial Board includes nine music educators
from the UK, and the International Editorial Board includes
educators from Sweden, UK, Australia, South Africa, and
Canada. For subscription information contact Carfax
Publishing at sales@carfax.co.uk or see the web page
http://www.carfax.co.uk There will be two issues per year;
North American personal rate is $56, Institutional rate is
$128.
The first issue
includes articles on musicking (by Small), teachers as
musicians and artists (Upitis, Smithrim, and Soren),
secondary music teachers (Cox), authentic music (Swanwick
and Lawson), fiddling (Cope), adolescent identity (North
and Hargreaves), and Cantonese children's songs
(Chen-Hafteck). For further details and a tale of
contents, see
http://www.carfax.co.uk/mue-ad.htm
Research
Studies in Music Education is an
Australian based international refereed journal in music.
From June 2000, RSME will be published by the Callaway
International Research Centre for Music Education, at the
University of Western Australia, in Perth, Australia.
Details of subscription costs can be obtained from the
inside cover of the journal, or by visiting the journal's
web site:
http://www.usq.edu.au/faculty/arts/music/Research.htm
Authors
are invited to submit papers, articles or reports on
research in music education. In general, papers should not
exceed 5,000 words. A short abstract of 100-150 words
should accompany each paper. Papers submitted for
publication will be assessed by at least two referees of
international standing. Papers should not be under
consideration for publication elsewhere. Papers published
in whole or in substantial part in another refereed journal
or monograph should not be submitted. The editors are
A/Professor Gary McPherson (University of New South Wales,
Sydney) and Dr. Edward Gifford (Deakin University,
Brisbane). The Editorial Board includes prominent music
education researchers from the UK, USA, Japan, Sweden,
Australia, Germany and Canada. Contributions should be sent
to: A/Professor Gary McPherson, School of Music and Music
Education, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052,
Australia. Email: G.McPherson@unsw.edu.au
News of
History SRIG members
Sondra
Howe will be the Musicologist for the Minnesota High School
Music Listening Contest for 2000-2001, and will be writing
the study guide for the contest.
Alan Spurgeon
has accepted the position of Southwest Division Chair of
the History SRIG.
The following
HSRIG members will present papers at the Allen P. Britton
Symposium at the University of Maryland, College Park, on
March 6, 2000: Gordon Cox, Scott Goble, George Heller,
Sondra Howe, Estelle Jorgensen, Mei-Ling Lai Kou, Michael
Mark, Roger Rideout, Nancy Vogan, and Terese
Volk.
Call
for Conference Papers
The
Fourth Bethlehem Conference on Moravian Music will take
place at Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on
October 26-29, 2000 The Bethlehem Conferences on Moravian
Music are held biennially in late October to celebrate the
rich musical tradition of the Moravians; to view this music
within Moravian culture in general and in relation to the
broader musical culture of its time; to cultivate interest
in Moravia scholarship among college students and younger
scholars; and to present the results of these studies in
programs of interest to the general public, scholars, and
performers. This year, we celebrate the 300th anniversary
of the birth of Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf,
eighteenth-century renewer of the Moravian Church and
founder of the city of Bethlehem, PA; as well as the 300th
anniversary of the invention of the modern pianoforte. We
are now accepting proposals for papers, lecture/
demonstrations, and performances. (The deadline for
proposals is May 15, 2000.) Topics should fall into one of
the following categories: 1. the life, works, and influence
of Zinzendorf; 2. Moravian music and liturgy; 3. the role
of the piano in nineteenth-century American society and
culture; 4. American/ Moravian music for the piano; 5.
historical performance practices on the early
piano.
Proposals
may be sent via conventional mail, FAX, or e-mail to: Dr.
Carol Traupman-Carr, Co-chair, Fourth Bethlehem Conference
on Moravian Music, Moravian College, 1200 Main Street,
Bethlehem PA 18018-6650; FAX: 610-861-1657 E-mail:
caroltcarr@moravian.edu
Recent
Publications
Books
Mark,
Michael L., and Charles L. Gary. A History
Of American Music Education. 2nd ed.
Reston, VA: MENCóThe National Association for Music
Education, 1999.
Olmstead,
Andrea. Juilliard:
A History. Urbana, IL:
University of Illinois Press, 1999.
Pitts,
Stephanie E. A Century
of Change in Music Education: Historical Perspectives on
Contemporary Practice in British Secondary School
Music. Aldershot, UK:
Ashgate, 2000.
Book
Chapters, Periodicals, Yearbooks, and Proceedings
"Bennett
Reimer: Curriculum Vitae." Journal of
Aesthetic Education 33 (Winter
1999): 195-203.
Britton,
Allen P. "Doctoral Programs in Music Education: A Personal
Perspective." In Vistas of
American Music: Essays and Compositions in Honor of William
K. Kearns, ed. Susan L.
Porter and John Graziano, 5-16. Warren, MI: Harmonie Park
Press, 1999.
Davenport,
Linda G. "Practicality, Patriotism, and Piety: Principal
Motivators for Maine Tunebook Compilers, 1794-1830." In
Vistas of American Music: Essays and Compositions in Honor
of William K. Kearns, ed. Susan L. Porter and John
Graziano, 63-76. Warren, MI: Harmonie Park Press,
1999.
De
Couve, Alicia C., and Claudia Dal Pino. "Historical
Panorama of Music Education in Latin Americda: Music
Training Institutions." International
Journal of Music Education 34 (1999):
30-46.
Howe,
Sondra Wieland. "Austrian Music Textbooks in the
Mason-McConathy Collection." Journal of
Historical Research in Music Education
21
(October 1999): 84-96.
Howe,
Sondra Wieland. "Dora Pejacevic," article and edition of
two piano pieces, Women
Composers: Music Through the Ages,vol. 6 (New
York: G. K. Hall, 1999), 431-46.
Howe,
Sondra Wieland. "Education: History" and "Education:
Methodologies" in Readerís
Guide to Music: History, Criticism, Theory
(Chicago:
Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999),
215-18.
Howe,
Sondra Wieland. "Luther Whiting Mason: International Music
Educator from Maine," Bulletin,
Maine Music Educators Association 36, no. 1 (Fall
1998): cover, 36-38, 40.
Jones,
Daniel C. L. "Early American Psalmody and the Core
Repertory: A Perspective." In Vistas of
American Music: Essays and Compositions in Honor of William
K. Kearns, ed. Susan L.
Porter and John Graziano, 39-62. Warren, MI: Harmonie Park
Press, 1999.
Karpf,
Juanita. "The Vocal Teacher of Ten Thousand: E. Azalia
Hackley as Community Music Educator, 1910?22."
Journal of
Research in Music Education 47 (Winter
1999): 319-330.
Katz,
Mark. "Making America More Musical through the Phonograph,
1900-1930." American
Music 19 (Winter
1998): 448-475.
Kelly,
Steven N. "John Barnes Chance and His Contributions to
Music Education." Journal of
Historical Research in Music Education
21
(October 1999): 21-40.
Livingston,
Carolyn. "The WPA Music Program as Exemplified in the
Career of Charles Faulkner Bryan." Journal of
Historical Research in Music Education
21
(October 1999): 3-20.
Mathis,
Russell. "ACDAís Forty-Year Journey." Choral
Journal 40 (November
1999): 9-23.
Mark,
Michael L. "A Historical Interpretation of Aesthetic
Education." Journal of
Aesthetic Education 33 (Winter
1999): 7-15.
Mark,
Michael L. "Music Education since Mid-Century: The Role of
the Music Educators National Conference."
Journal of
Aesthetic Education 33 (Fall 1999):
79-92.
Martin,
Blair. "The Influence and Function of Shape Notes and
Singing Schools in the Twentieth Century: An Historical
Study of the Church of God." Journal of
Historical Research in Music Education
21
(October 1999): 62-83.
Martin,
Michael D. "Band Schools of the United States: A Historical
Overview." Journal of
Historical Research in Music Education
21
(October 1999): 41-61.
Price,
Harry, and Evelyn K. Orman. "MENC National Conferences,
1984?1998: A Content Analysis." UPDATE:
Applications of Research in Music Education
18
(Fall?Winter 1999): 26-32.
Reese,
Sam. "More than Just Words." Journal of
Aesthetic Education 33 (Winter
1999): 161-177. [biography of Bennett
Reimer]
Smith,
Ralph A. "Harry S. Broudy (1905-1998): A Life Devoted to
Enlightened Cherishing." Journal of
Aesthetic Education 33 (Spring
1999): 1-10.
Reviews
Heller, George
N. Review of Modern Historiography: An Introduction, by
Michael Bentley, and In Defense of History, by Richard J.
Evans. Journal of
Historical Research in Music Education
21
(October 1999): 97-101.
McCarthy,
Marie. Review of Luther Whiting Mason: International Music
Educator, by Sondra Wieland Howe. Journal of
Historical Research in Music Education
21
(October 1999): 101-104.
HSRIG
OFFICERS
*
Chair: Marie McCarthy, School of Music, University of
Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. E-mail:
mm148@umail.umd.edu
*
Vice-Chair: Carolyn Livingston, Department of Music,
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881.
E-mail: musiced@uriacc.uri.edu
*
Past Chair: Sondra Wieland Howe, 135 Chevy Chase Drive,
Wayzata, MN 55391 E-mail: howex009@tc.umn.edu
*
Eastern Division Chair: Patrick M. Jones, Fredonia School
of Music, State University of New York, Fredonia, NY 14063.
E-mail: jonesp@fredonia.edu
*
North Central Division Chair: Jean Fickett, 1175D Arbor
Drive, East Lansing, MI 48823 E-mail:
fickettj@pilot.msu.edu
*
Northwestern Division Chair: Gary Nakayama, 14402 144th St.
E, Orting, WA 98360.
*
Southern Division Chair: James T. McRaney, 2636 Whiteleigh
Court, Atlanta, GA 30345. E-mail: JMcRaney@aol.com
*
Southwestern Division Chair: Alan Spurgeon, RR 2 Box 85,
Weatherford, OK 73096-9534. E-mail:
spurgeon@hpnts.net
*
Western Division Chair: Aubrey Penman, 4333 Alderwood Way,
Sacramento, CA 95864
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