Assuming john is required, and white is required, the following 126 results were found.
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Music and Advertising in Seventeen Magazine, 1944-1981
Abstract Music had a prominent place in Seventeen from its first issue in September 1944, and music’s importance in the magazine reflects music’s importance in the lives of girls from the 1940s through the present day. Building on previous work by...
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Remixing Western Music History
Abstract The problem faced by music historians of how (or whether) to impart reverence for music created through the institutions of imperialism, patriarchy, colonialism, and slavery is not a new one; nevertheless, as decolonizing initiatives take hold...
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More Than A Drummer Boy's War: A Historical View of Musicians in the American Civil War
Introduction Although making music and making war may seem incompatible, the two endeavors have been inextricably linked throughout recorded history. There is, perhaps, no better example of this powerful pairing than the American Civil War, often...
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Appreciation Without Apologies
Admit it: music appreciation is square. In the recent film comedy School of Rock, when a bumbling rocker somehow gets a job teaching at a stuffy prep school and begins teaching classes in "rock history and appreciation," what's funny is how the film...
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Music as Life-Saving Project: Venezuela’s El Sistema in American Neo-Idealistic Imagination
Abstract The U.S. reception of El Sistema has been, for the most part, enthusiastic, as reflected in numerous media articles and the literature of prominent advocates such as Tricia Tunstall. An analysis of these sources points to a tendency on the...
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Abstract The study of jazz has been part of ethnomusicology since the 1940s, contributing meaningfully to the discipline's core theories and methodologies. In turn, ethnomusicological studies have profoundly colored jazz scholarship at large. This...
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Performance as an Avenue to Educational Realities in Music
SYMPOSIUM Performance as Humanistic Study The discussion of this controversial subject was sparked by regulations found in the Constitution and By-Laws of Phi Beta Kappa: Grades earned in applied or professional work shall not be counted in computing...
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Scale in Southern Appalachian Folksong: A Reexamination
Reducing a folk melody to its pitch spectrum does not fully elucidate its development, and few participants in an oral tradition consciously follow scalar dicta. Nonetheless, an awareness of the tonal material of a folksong is essential to the broader...
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Berg, Strindberg, and D Minor1 Berg's fusion of tonality and atonality is a notable feature of his musical language, and the key of D minor appears with surprising regularity. D minor can be found in various of his early unpublished piano sonatas, in...
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Amerigrove's Pedigree: On [i]The New Grove Dictionary of American Music[/i]
Amerigrove's Pedigree: On The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, ed. H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie, with Susan Feder as editorial coordinator The study of music in the United States has a history of its own that now stretches back nearly a...
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Evaluating Music Performance: Politics, Pitfalls, and Successful Practices
Background Evaluation is an integral component of music performance and instruction, an activity in which musicians engage at many levels, ranging from processes that are very informal and spontaneous to very formal processes that occur within highly...
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[i]Ethnomusicology Scholarship and Teaching[/i] - Second Thoughts: A Short Personal Anthology
Abstract The history of ethnomusicology since ca. 1950 is explored from a personal perspective by contemplating ways in which the author (seeing himself as an exemplar of the profession as a whole) has changed directions and attitudes on several major...
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Motivational Leadership Theories Applied to Music Pedagogy
The twin issues of motivation and leadership strategy are among the most significant and relevant concerns in music pedagogy. Yet, the average music teacher has, at best, only a passing acquaintance with the body of research and data available in these...
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[i]Ethnomusicology Scholarship and Teaching[/i] - Neurodiversity and the Ethnomusicology of Autism
Abstract In this article, I explore how musical experience and an emergent ethnomusicology of autism can provide both people with autism and their neurotypical counterparts with opportunities to collectively live, model, and promote an epistemology of...
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From Incubation to Delivery: An Application of Project Management for the Music Industry
Abstract Completing a music-related project is a complex endeavor that often encompasses many interdependent tasks within a team setting. One may subsequently ask how can such creative teams not only account for all the constraints linked with their...
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Tempo Choices in Mozart’s Minuets: Considerations from a Conductor’s Point of View
Abstract This article focuses on the two main types of minuets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart—Tempo di Menuetto and Menuetto Allegretto—that appear in his symphonic works and in his pieces for dance accompaniment. Drawing on primary sources by Johann...
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The First Movement of Beethoven's Opus 132 and the Classical Style
The First Movement of Beethoven's Opus 132 and the Classical Style* The works of Beethoven's last period, the years 1813-27 broadly defined, have come to occupy a special place in the history of Western music. They are thought to contain some of the...
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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...
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And Now an Ideology from Our Sponsor: Musical Style and Semiosis in American Television Commercials
I. Introduction Television viewing is regarded by most in our society as a recreational pastime and an escapist form of entertainment. Yet media theorists hold the position that television viewing is not the passive activity that we might assume. John...
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The Woman in the Music (On Feminism as Theory and Practice)
The Woman in the Music 1 (On Feminism as Theory and Practice) At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern, I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can...
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