From Settler Colonialism to Standing Rock: Hearing Native Voices for Peace

30 November 2018 Abstract The water protectors of the Standing Rock Sioux captured public attention with their opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline. Yet their actions are only the most recent in a long history of indigenous resistance to resource extraction and...

Retention and Recruitment of Students of Underrepresented Populations in Music Teacher Education (Part I)

01 October 2024 Abstract The recruitment and retention of music education majors from underrepresented populations are emerging as crucial focal points in music education discourse. As the field collectively grapples with the urgency of addressing these concerns,...

A Musicologist Defends the D.M.A.

01 October 1976 In Milo Velimirovic's excellent, forthright article "The Profession of Musicology: Today and Tomorrow," there lies, almost hidden among much that I find both stimulating and convincing, one viewpoint with which I am in such strong disagreement that I...

CMS, MGS, and Wingspread

30 April 2006 reflected an emphasis on music as a part of all college students' general studies in higher education. It was during Chappell White's presidency (1979 and 1980), that CMS's elected leaders decided to focus more attention on MGS and the many challenges...

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.,...

Approaching the Millennium

31 October 1997 to know where the Society has been before assessing its present state and discussing its future. CMS Past-President Chappell White, in the Spring 1980 College Music Symposium, noted from Henry Woodward's six-part history of the Society that CMS has...

Paying Attention to Music and Baseball: Listening to the Savannah Bananas

13 May 2026 In 1956, Ford Frick, the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, tried to woo music fans to pay more attention to baseball. Writing in Music Journal, Frick hoped that his “comparison of music and baseball should be of interest to devotees of both of...

To Doctor or Not, That is (Still) the Question

01 October 1981 2Two interesting and somewhat opposing viewpoints on the D.M.A. can be found in SYMPOSIUM: a defense of the degree by Chappell White, XVI (Spring 1976), 133-136; and an article by Milo Velimirovic which questions the need for the degree in XIV (1974),...

Past Editors

10 May 2013 1970 Donald M. McCorkle Volume 11, 1971 George Buelow Volume 12,1972 Henry Woodward Volumes 13 through 15,1973 - 1975 Chappell White Volumes 16 through 19,1976 - 1979 Carolyn Raney Volumes 20 through 22,1980 - 1982 Charles M. Carroll Volumes 23 through...

The Music Industry, Musical Industry, and Dirty (Blond) Work

13 May 2026 A Dirty Blond Show I’m home on a Saturday afternoon in Hampton, Connecticut and my band has a Blondie covers gig tonight in New York City. I give myself a strong coffee and four hours and for what Google Maps predicts is a three-hour drive (traffic...