Applications of Feminist Pedagogy to the College Music Major Curriculum: An Introduction to the Issues

01 October 1996 Preliminaries In the 1990s, college music is undergoing radical curriculum reform in response to various calls to diversify subject matter and repertoire. Traditional programs of study are being challenged, and classical canons of repertoire broken...

Pygmalions of Pop: Reinterpreting Jazz and Rock Standards

01 October 1989 Pygmalions of Pop: Reinterpreting Jazz and Rock Standards1 The pop musician's practice of reinterpreting a tune previously recorded by another artist is common to both jazz and rock. Jazz musicians traditionally look to the vast reserves of the Tin Pan...

Accentuate the Negative? On Teaching Biographical Details in Jazz History

31 August 2013 Abstract Jazz history professors and book authors may be prejudicing their students’ impressions of jazz by including negative biographical information about the major musicians. This author scrutinizes biographical presentations that are unnecessarily...

[i]Reflections on American Music: The Twentieth Century and The New Millennium[/i], edited by James R. Heintze and Michael Saffle

01 October 2003 Reflections on American Music: The Twentieth Century and The New Millennium, edited by James R. Heintze and Michael Saffle. CMS Monographs and Bibliographies in American Music, 16. Michael J. Budds, series editor. Hillsdale, New York: Pendragon Press,...

[i]Where the Dark and Light Folks Meet: Race and the Mythology, Politics and Business of Jazz[/i], by Randall Sandke

01 October 2012 Where the Dark and Light Folks Meet: Race and the Mythology, Politics and Business of Jazz, by Randall Sandke. Scarecrow, 2010. 275 pages with index and notes. Clothbound; ISBN 978-0-8108-6652-2; $40. Randall Sandke's Where the Dark and Light Folks...

The Suzuki Violin School: Past, Present, and Possible Future

15 May 2024 Abstract According to the International Suzuki Association, by 2024, all ten books of the Suzuki violin method’s International Edition will have been published (https://internationalsuzuki.org/violin). Scholarship engaged with the method largely...

Causes and Cures of Poor Intonation: Applications of Audiological and Psychological Research

01 October 1986 To deal with a student's poor intonation appropriately, a teacher must know the specific cause of the problem. Many causes exist, most of which can be fairly easily detected (if not always so easily eliminated). These include lack of practice, lack of...

Our Rebirth: Reshaping the Music Discipline after the Covid-19 Pandemic

01 May 2020 Every cloud has a silver lining, and when the dust settles and we emerge from this Covid-19 pandemic, there will no doubt be a renewed sense of humanity, and with it, an opportunity to take back music, to lead rather than follow, to establish a fresh...

Jazz in American Education Today

01 October 1989 Persons concerned about the future of the arts and aware that the arts are essential to the continuance of culture were thrilled with past Secretary Of Education William Bennett's recent report on James Madison High School, in which he stated that all...

The Music-Driven Syllabus: Using Music Notation and Content to Engage Students with the Syllabus

15 November 2022 “Creating a Music History Course: Course Design, Textbooks, and Syllabi.” In The Music History Classroom, edited by James A. Davis, 1-14. Farnham, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. Gifford, Jack. 2003. The Syllabus/E-Syllabus for the 21st Century. Lanham,...

Music Degrees and Career Options: A Hot Topic

29 February 2004 In 2001, the CMS Board developed the concept of a common topic of interest to the Society that would be discussed at both regional and national levels. For 2003, the topic was What You Can Do with a Degree in Music: Career Options Outside of Teaching...