Defending Music Theory in a Multicultural Curriculum

02 October 2006 Defending Music Theory in a Multicultural Curriculum1 Music theory has served as the foundation for undergraduate music curricula in the United States for much of the past century. Within many music departments, it has been used to introduce students...

[i]"A Commonsense View of All Music": Reflections on Percy Grainger's Contribution to Ethnomusicology and Music Education[/i], by John Blacking

01 October 1988 a long list of references to effective scholarly refutations. 2Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1973. authors: Bonnie C. Wade author_ids: 1188 authors: Bonnie C. Wade author_ids: 1188

An Outsider’s Guide to Classical Music: Teaching the Western Canon as “Other”

01 October 2009 There is a need to teach the young people who will be doing the science themselves, but this will always be a small minority among us. There is a deeper need to teach science to those who will be needed for thinking about it, and this means pretty...

Reforming Music Theory as the Centerpiece of a Twenty-First-Century Curriculum: A Response to YouYoung Kang

01 October 2008 curriculum to include a much broader variety of musics. Unfortunately, she then turns to a single recent example, Bonnie C. Wade's Thinking Musically: Expressing Music, Expressing Culture. Kang gives Wade's work very fair treatment, except in one...

Resource Sharing for General Music: How To Teach A Diverse and Multicultural Curriculum Without Spending Extra Hours Reinventing the Wheel

01 October 2009 is far from complete. Cost is about $3200.00. Global Music Series: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture. Edited by Bonnie C. Wade and Patricia Shehan Campbell. Oxford University Press. Paperback book and CD set, each volume under $30. Regions...

Report of the Symposium on Armenian Music

01 October 1981 The program for Armenian musical studies established in 1979 at the University of Southern California organized the first Symposium on Armenian Music which was held on the University campus May 23-26, 1980. The purpose of the gathering was to explore...