Music Matters: Curricular Change During Times of Institutional Stress

28 October 2025 The curriculum overhaul described in this essay was the result of a practical and intellectual collaboration with three departmental colleagues, whom I acknowledge with gratitude: Robert Cowles, Charity Lofthouse, and Mark Olivieri. Editor, Scholarship...

Paideia con Salsa: Charles Keil, Groovology, and the Undergraduate Music Curriculum

14 September 2015 me look legitimate as an heir to John Blacking or a guy who would like to be helpful to music education. RM/LH: Patricia Shehan Campbell is somebody in music education it seems you’ve connected with. CK: Yes. I have never had any problem connecting with...

A Shared Commitment: CMS and ISME

31 August 2003 ISME has attracted many CMS members and leaders to participate in its vision. They have included Arthur Tollefson, Patricia Shehan Campbell, Paul Lehman, Ric Trimillos, Barry Brooke, Robert Trotter, Claude Palisca, and many more. As we look forward to...

Reflections on the Manifesto

15 August 2016 In 2013, the President of The College Music Society, Patricia Shehan Campbell, appointed a task force of eight scholars that represented various areas within the music academy. The purpose of the task force was to articulate "what it means to be an...

Overview and Content of the Manifesto

01 January 2016 In 2013, Patricia Shehan Campbell, at the time President of The College Music Society, appointed the Task Force for the Undergraduate Music Major (TFUMM) to consider "what it means to be an educated musician in the twenty-first century" and "to make...

Preface to [i]Ethnomusicology Scholarship and Teaching: Then, Now, and Into the Future[/i]

08 October 2014 the support of many, especially the authors, the reviewers, CMS Forums editor Matthew Shevitz, CMS President Patricia Shehan Campbell, and the staff team at the CMS office. To each of them I express my most sincere gratitude. C. Victor Fung, Editor...

Students Speak: Diversity in the Pedagogical Practices of Music in Higher Education

08 July 2014 Maren Haynes, Christina Kowalski-Holien, Kait LaPorte, Jocelyn Moon, Subhash Prajapahti, Julia Vilharlahti, and Patricia Shehan Campbell The musical world is not flat. Diversity is a foundation around which music teaching and learning can be designed at...

Past Editors

10 May 2013 37, 1995 - 1997 Anne Dhu McLucas Volumes 38 through 41,1998 - 2001 David Butler Volumes 42 through 44, 2002 - 2004 Patricia Shehan Campbell Volumes 45 through 47, 2005 - 2007 Richard Green Volumes 48 through 52, 2008 - 2012 Glenn Stanley Reviews Volumes...