Nobel Reflections on Making Social Change: Interview with Jerry White

30 November 2018 Jerry White is a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in the removal of landmines. In this interview, Jerry reflects on some of the important challenges his work faced and how those challenges serve as signposts for initiating a movement on...

Music Education in Historical Perspective: Status, Non-Musicians, and the Role of Women

01 October 1992 In a fundamental sense, all musicians are educators, whether we acknowledge it or even intend it.1 It is our students and purposes that vary. Consequently, the music education profession traditionally refers to only those individuals who prepare music...

Julius Weiss: Scott Joplin's First Piano Teacher

01 October 1979 In writing musical biographies and in tracing the influence of one musical generation upon another, musicologists have traditionally spent considerable time and effort to investigate teacher-student relationships. Until recently this seems to have been...

Overview to Music, Business, and Peace

30 November 2018 neglecting the ambivalence noted, what can music (or sports, business, religion, law, and film) do to enhance peace? Jerry White, who shared in the citation for the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize (related to landmine renewal) spoke at the 2017 conference on...

Letter to the Editor from Gridley, Mark

01 October 2011 Dear Editor of College Music Symposium: Thank you for giving me the opportunity to reply to Brian Harker's article: "In Defense of Context in Jazz History: A Response to Mark Gridley" (CMS 48, pp. 157-159), which referred to my article in the previous...

“Experience is an Identity”: The Collegiate Marching Band and Expressions of Communal Identity

15 November 2022 Abstract The communities formed in higher education institutions often view marching bands as an essential representation of communal identity. Marching bands are able to project this communal identity through musical and visual performance practices...

Musical Pattern Perception

01 October 1979 How the human mind structures its complex environment is a topic that has been explored for generations by individuals from a wide variety of disciplines. Musicians now seem to be generally aware that pattern perception is highly relevant to their...