The Ninth Semester: Preparing Undergraduates to Function as Professional Musicians in the 21st Century

08 January 2015 Abstract There has been much discussion and research in recent years about the types of careers our recent music graduates have been leading. Scholarly work suggests that the current undergraduate curriculum may not prepare musicians to function...

You Want Me to Teach What?

01 January 2001 measure for professional advancement. In today's current marketplace, does this tradition need revision? authors: Barbara Bennett author_ids: 380 authors: Barbara Bennett author_ids: 380

Academic Citizenship and Schools of Music in Twenty-First-Century “Engaged” Universities Dedicated to the Public Good

01 October 2009 Beginning especially during the last two decades of the twentieth century, a new vision and movement for liberal learning in higher education—that of the “engaged” institution dedicated to “engaged” learning and to the public good—emerged in the United...

Conducting a Liberatory Pedagogy: Empowering the Music Apprentice as a Knowledge Producer in the Classroom

01 March 2022 Abstract Music instruction in the college and the conservatory is dominated by the ancient master-apprentice model of instruction, which has problematic cultural and pedagogical ramifications. This essay first investigates apprenticeship from...

The Teacher's Guide to Recent Recordings of Music by Black Composers

01 October 1973 This discography is restricted to "concert" music by composers of African ancestry, regardless of the country of their birth. I acknowledge immediately that several of the figures listed are represented on recordings by works in other genres (e.g.,...

The Student View of Teaching, or What Students Expect of Teachers in the 1970s

01 October 1973 Teaching is always a focal point of interest in Symposium. For Volume 13, six essays were commissioned from students by selected professors to provide a forum for those who are still on the receiving end of teaching. At the time of this writing, Ms....