KEOKUK II
THE MENC CENTENNIAL HISTORY SYMPOSIUM
May
31-June 2, 2007
Keokuk, Iowa
Chief Keokuk
Rand Park
Organized
by:
History Special Research Interest Group
of the
Society for Research in Music Education
of the
MENC: The National Association for Music Education
Symposium Sponsors:
MENC:
The National Association for Music Education
Keokuk Area Convention and Tourist Bureau
The University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre &
Dance
Arizona State University School of Music
Hal Leonard Corporation
University of Mississippi Department of Music
Program
Note:
All events will take place in the Holiday Inn Express
Keokuk, 4th and Main, except as noted.
Thursday,
May 31
7:30-9:30
p.m.
Meyers Courtyard
629 Blondeau Street, Keokuk
Reception
(8:00)
Welcome by
Keokuk Mayor David Gudgel
Refreshments
provided by City of Keokuk, cash bar
Entertainment
by a Jazz Trio led by
Nicolas Coffman, Iowa City,
Iowa
Friday, June 1
8:45-9:30
Mississippi
Room
Keynote
Address: Re-Inventing Tradition: A Future for Historians in
a Transculturally Congested World?
Barbara
Finkelstein, University of
Maryland, College Park
Presider:
Marie McCarthy, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor
9:30-9:45
Break
9:45-10:25
Mississippi
Room
The
National Education Association Department of Music
Education: Precursor of the Music Supervisors National
Conference
Roger
Rideout, University of
Massachusetts at Amherst
Presider:
Mark Fonder, Ithaca
College, Ithaca, New York
Riverfront Room
Ear
Training and Music Reading Methods Used by Philip C.
Hayden: Tonality Taught Through “Rhythm Forms”
Casey
Gerber, University of
Mississippi, Oxford
Presider:
Don Coffman, University of
Iowa, Iowa City
10:30-11:10
Mississippi
Room
Charles
Fullerton: MSNC Founder and Music Education Pioneer
in the Shadows
Pamela
Stover, Southern
Illinois University-Carbondale
Presider:
Jui-ching Wang, Northern
Illinois University, DeKalb
Riverfront Room
Frances
Elliott Clark and Alice Carey Inskeep: Mentor
and
Mentee
Michele
Gregoire (a Clark
descendent), Flagler
College, St. Augustine,
Florida
Debra
Hedden, University of
Kansas, Lawrence
Presider:
Patti Tolbert, Georgia
College, Milledgeville, Georgia
11:15-11:55
Mississippi
Room
A
Synoptic History of the Life and Works of the Music
Missionary Frances Elliott Clark and Her Influence on the
Music Appreciation Movement
John
R. Dulaney, Drake
University, Des Moines, Iowa
Presider:
Roger Rideout, University of
Massachusetts at Amherst
Riverfront
Room
“Charts
and Other Paraphernalia”: Charles H. Congdon (1856 -1928)
and His Music Teaching Materials
Terese
M. Volk, Wayne State
University, Detroit, Michigan
Presider:
Gordon Cox, University of
Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
12:00-1:00
Hotel Lobby
Lunch
and Sing-along
Song
leader:
James T. McRaney
Accompanists:
Sondra Wieland Howe (guitar)
and
Marcia L. Thoen (accordion)
1:00-1:40
Mississippi
Room
Early
Twentieth Century Orchestra Educational Outreach in
Minneapolis: Young People’s Symphony Concert Association
and the Repertoire Programmed and Conducted by Emil
Oberhoffer 1911-1922
Marcia
L. Thoen, Wayzata
Independent School District #284, Wayzata,
Minnesota
Presider:
Sondra Wieland Howe, Wayzata,
Minnesota
Riverfront
Room
I
Hear America Singing: The Music Supervisors’ National
Conference’s Emphasis on Informal Singing During the 1910s
Steven
M. Zielke, Oregon State
University, Corvallis
Presider:
James T. McRaney, Reinhardt
College, Waleska, Georgia
1:45-2:25
Mississippi
Room
Music
Education in Dallas, Oregon 1915 as Revealed in the “Music
Notebook” of Eighth Grade Teacher Ruth Cleveland Nunn
Lynnda
N. Fuller, Scappoose,
Oregon
Presider:
Terese M. Volk, Wayne State
University, Detroit, Michigan
Riverfront
Room
Philander
P. Claxton, National Advocate for Music in Public Education
William
R. Lee, University of
Tennessee-Chattanooga
Presider:
George McDow, Independent
School District, Boerne, Texas
2:25-2:45
Break
2:45-3:45
Mississippi
Room
A
Silver Celebration: Honoring 25 Years of Early Childhood
Music Research
Moderator:
Martina Miranda, University of
Colorado at Boulder
Panelists:
Shelly Cooper, University of
Arizona, Tucson
Cynthia Taggart, Michigan
State University, East Lansing
Presider:
Alison Reynolds, Temple
University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Riverfront Room
Adventures
in Good Music: The Role of Radio in Music Education
Moderator:
Bradford H. Meyerdierks, Ball State
University, Muncie, Indiana
Panelists:
Sondra Wieland Howe, Wayzata,
Minnesota
Terese M. Volk, Wayne State
University, Detroit, Michigan
Presider:
Jane Southcott, Monash
University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
4:00-4:45
Corner of 7th and Blondeau, Keokuk
Dedication
Ceremony: Commemorative Marker for the Founding
of MENC: The National Association for Music Education
Presider:
Lynn Brinckmeyer, President,
MENC
Presenters:
John Aboud,
President,
Iowa Music
Educators Association
David
Gudgel, Mayor, City
of Keokuk
Jere
T. Humphreys, Chair,
MENC
History Special
Research
Interest Group
Michael Mark, Member, MENC
Hall of Fame
Music
by:
Keokuk High School Choir directed
by
Daniel Proctor
6:00
United Presbyterian Church of Keokuk
102 Main
Street, Keokuk
Banquet
Lynn Brinckmeyer,
President,
MENC
Culture and Personality in the Shaping
of Institutions
Robert
E. Engel,
Associate
Professor Emeritus, University of Iowa, Iowa City
Meal prepared by the United Presbyterian Church of Keokuk
8:00
United Presbyterian Church of Keokuk
102 Main
Street, Keokuk
Concert
Alan
Spurgeon, University of
Mississippi, Oxford, Master of Ceremonies
Mary
Jane Goeke, Keokuk, Iowa,
Organist
Tempered
Brass: New Horizons
Quartet, Iowa City, Iowa
Chamber Chorale of Southeastern Community
College, West
Burlington, Iowa,
Allen Chapman,
Director
Clark County High School Jazz Ensemble, Kahoka,
Missouri,
Robert
Dooley,
Director
Sing-Along,
James T. McRaney, Reinhardt
College, Waleska, Georgia,
Song Leader
Sondra
Wieland Howe, Wayzata,
Minnesota, Concert Organizer
Saturday, June 2
8:45-9:30
Mississippi
Room
Keynote Address: The Influence of Recapitulation Theory on
Music Education: Some Anglo-American Crossing Points in
Curriculum History
Gordon
Cox, University of
Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
Presider:
Jere T. Humphreys, Arizona State
University, Tempe
9:45-10:25
Mississippi
Room
An
Examination of the Music Teachers National Association
Papers and Proceedings 1906-1930: A Twenty-Five Year
Perspective
Shelly
Cooper and Robert Bayless, University of
Arizona, Tucson
Presider:
Pamela Stover, Southern
Illinois University-Carbondale
Riverfront
Room
High
School Credit Awarded for Outside Applied Music Study
Melvin
Platt, University of
Missouri-Columbia
Presider:
Alan Spurgeon, University of
Mississippi, Oxford
10:30-11:10
Mississippi
Room
Henry
Ford: Early Twentieth-Century American Arts Education
Advocate
Emery
Warnock, Richmond
Hill, Georgia
Presider:
Justin Wallace, University of
Mississippi, Oxford
Riverfront
Room
The
Seeking Attitude: Ideas that Influenced Satis N. Coleman
Jane
Southcott, Monash
University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
Presider:
Ingrid Kovacs, Canarelli
Middle School, Las Vegas,
Nevada
11:15-11:55
Mississippi
Room
Illinois
School Band Association: 1924-1940
Phillip
M. Hash, Calvin
College, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Presider:
Michele Gregoire, Flagler
College, St. Augustine, Florida
Riverfront Room
Keokuk I, 1907 - Keokuk II, 2007: A Story of Global
Dimensions
Marie
McCarthy, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor
Presider:
Debra Spurgeon, University of
Mississippi, Oxford
12:00-1:00
Hotel Lobby
Lunch
and Sing-along
Song
leader:
James T. McRaney
Accompanists:
Sondra Wieland Howe (guitar)
and
Marcia L. Thoen (accordion)
1:00-1:40
Mississippi
Room
The
Method Comes To America: Orff Levels Training at Ball
State University
Carla
Jo Maltas, University of
Central Missouri, Warrensburg
Presider:
Emery C. Warnock, Richmond
Hill, Georgia
Riverfront
Room
Choral
Music in Selected African American High Schools Prior to
Integration
Alan
Spurgeon, University of
Mississippi, Oxford
Presider:
William R. Lee, University of
Tennessee-Chattanooga
1:45-2:25
Mississippi
Room
MENC
and Canada: Music Education Across the Border
Nancy
F. Vogan, Mount Allison
University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
Presider:
Keith Y. Preston, Peoria
Unified School District, Peoria, Arizona
Riverfront
Room
Early
Childhood Music Education in the United States from 1980 to
2007: The Role of the Music Educators National Conference
Corin
Overland and
Alison Reynolds, Temple
University, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
Presider:
Shelly Cooper, University of
Arizona, Tucson
2:25-2:45
Break
2:45-4:15
Mississippi
Room
Perspectives on American Music Education--Past, Present,
and
Future: MENC Hall of Fame and Past Presidents Panel
Moderator:
Melvin Platt, University of
Missouri-Columbia
Panelists:
Lynn Brinckmeyer,
MENC President
Texas State
University, San Marcos
David Circle, MENC
Immediate Past President
Stilwell,
Kansas
Michael Mark, MENC Hall of
Fame Member
Baltimore,
Maryland
Presider:
Jeffrey Thuerauf, Conservatorio
de Música de Puerto Rico, San Juan,
Puerto Rico
4:20-5:30
Mississippi
Room
Music
Education in the United States: Views from the Outside
Moderator:
Jere T. Humphreys, Arizona State
University, Tempe
Panelists:
Gordon Cox, University of
Reading, Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
Werner Jank, University of
Music and Performing Arts, Mannheim,
Germany
Marie McCarthy, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor (a native of Ireland)
Jane Southcott, Monash
University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
Nancy F. Vogan, Mount Allison
University, Sackville, New Brunswick,
Canada
Presider:
Patrick M. Jones, University of
the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
6:00
Tour
of the Keokuk Riverfront
Dinner in Nauvoo, Illinois (not included
in registration fee)
Symposium
Planning Committee:
Mark Fonder
Sondra Wieland Howe (Concert Organizer)
Jere T. Humphreys (Symposium Chair)
William R. Lee
Marie McCarthy
James T. McRaney
Alan Spurgeon (Symposium Arrangements Chair)
Terese M. Volk
Liaisons
Kirk Brandenberger, Executive Director, Keokuk Area
Convention and Tourist Bureau
David Circle, MENC Immediate Past President
Scholarly
Review Panel:
Shelly
Cooper
Mark Fonder
Sondra Wieland Howe
Patrick M. Jones
William R. Lee
Carolyn Livingston
Marie McCarthy
James T. McRaney
Terese M. Volk
Emery C. Warnock
History Special Research Interest Group Leadership for
2006-08:
National
Chair Jere T. Humphreys, Arizona State University, Tempe
National Chair-Elect: Alan Spurgeon, University of
Mississippi, Oxford
National Immediate Past Chair James T. McRaney, Reinhardt
College, Waleska, GA
Eastern
Division Chair Patrick Jones, University of the Arts,
Philadelphia, PA
International
Division Chair Jeffrey Thuerauf, Conservatorio de Música de
Puerto
Rico, San Juan,
Puerto Rico
North Central
Division Chair Terese M. Volk, Wayne State University,
Detroit, MI
Northwest Division Chair Patricia Shehan Campbell,
University of Washington,
Seattle
Southern
Division Chair Emery C. Warnock, Richmond Hill, GA
Southwest
Division Chair George H. McDow, Independent School
District,
Boerne, TX
Western
Division Chair Shelly Cooper, University of Arizona, Tucson
Program designed by Alexandra H. Humphreys, Arizona State
University, Tempe.