Assuming john is required, and white is required, the following 126 results were found.
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The Origin of Armstrong's Hot Fives and Hot Sevens
It has been almost fifty years since Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings of 1925-19281 were first recognized in print as a watershed of jazz history and the means by which the trumpeter emerged as the style's first transcendent figure.2...
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Design for Change: Creating Significant Learning Experiences in the Music Classroom
Ronald Rodman's "And Now an Ideology from Our Sponsor: Musical Style and Semiosis in American Television Commercials" and John White's "Radio Formats and the Transformation of Musical Style: Codes and Cultural Values in the Remaking of Tunes."11 Human...
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Paying Attention to Music and Baseball: Listening to the Savannah Bananas
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...
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These days, it seems everywhere one turns, issues and themes related to sexuality are in evidence. Movies from the unlikeliest of sources are circulating the country on gay themes—A Jihad for Love—that deals with the problems faced by gay men and...
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[i]Music in the Baroque[/i], by Wendy Heller
Music in the Baroque (Western Music in Context: A Norton History) [Paperback] Publication Date: July 31, 2013 | ISBN-10: 0393929175 | ISBN-13: 978-0393929171 Anthology for Music in the Baroque (Western Music in Context: A Norton History) Publication...
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Concept-Based Pedagogy and its Application in the Private Clarinet Studio
Abstract Educators are no longer the keepers of content. With the increase in accessibility to technology and the internet, teachers need to show students how to think critically and use facts to influence their own independence and creativity in the...
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Cultural Influences of Organ Music Composed by African American Women
Cultural Influences on Organ Music Written By African American Women 1 Abstract In this paper, major events in African American history are described and contrasted with the history of organ music written by African American women in the twentieth- and...
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Early Music Matters: Revitalizing the Survey through a Contextual Approach[sup]1[/sup]
Abstract The early music segment of the Western music history survey is an important opportunity to reach out to undergraduate music students before they become the music educators, performers, and advocates for music in our communities. In such...
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"Trollopiana"—David Claypoole Johnston Counters Frances Trollope's Views on American Music
The publication of Frances Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans (London, 1832) provoked a storm of angry reactions in the United States. Journalists, artists, and popular-music composers alike denounced her criticisms of American life and...
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Letter to the Editor from Gridley, Mark
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...
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Expanding Frames of Reference: Teaching the History of Electro-Acoustic Music
Context Brian Mann once stated in these pages1 that competence in music appreciation is, among other things, a matter of continually expanding frames of reference. He stated, as an example, that one appreciates Beethoven's Eroica to a certain extent on...
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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...
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"Broadway the Hard Way:" Techniques of Allusion in the Music of Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa might be described as a cultural guerilla. He sees that the popular arts are propagandistic in the broad sense—even when they masquerade as rebellion they lull us into fantasy and homogenize our responses. So he infiltrates the machine and...
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Overview to Music, Business, and Peace
The articles in this special issue are specifically devoted to the relationship between music, business, and peace. This conversation has been the aim of two Music, Business, and Peace (MBP) conferences at Indiana University led by university scholars...
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The Folk: Music, Modernity, and the Political Imagination. Ross Cole. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 259 pp. 25 black and white images. ISBN: 9780520383739. $85.00 In his recent book, Ross Cole draws a potentially eye-raising...
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Black, Brown, and Beige: One Piece of Duke Ellington's Musical and Social Legacy
For this article, I chose Black, Brown, and Beige, and the critics' reactions to it, as a starting point from which to discuss Ellington's efforts to change negative perceptions about African Americans and the conditions under which they lived. The...
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Many features of music contribute to its positive potential for promoting social harmony. But music’s influence on human interaction is not entirely benign. I consider features of music that enable it to serve such contrary projects, beginning by...
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The systematic study of musical acoustics existed as early as the first century B.C., as documented by Vitruvius in his ten books on architecture. Great strides in understanding were achieved in the nineteenth century, especially with the work of...
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Choral music is one of the most enduring programs in music in American higher education. The idea that an educated citizen should have some competence in singing and experience in a choral ensemble predates the Declaration of Independence by at least...
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to their medium of performance, number of voices, and form of genre. Anthology of Music for Analysis by Albert Cohen and John White is comprised of about thirty selections from the Baroque Fugue to Music of Impressionism, i.e. Buxtehude through Ravel....
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