Conducting a Liberatory Pedagogy: Empowering the Music Apprentice as a Knowledge Producer in the Classroom

01 March 2022 Abstract Music instruction in the college and the conservatory is dominated by the ancient master-apprentice model of instruction, which has problematic cultural and pedagogical ramifications. This essay first investigates apprenticeship from...

Music Theory Pedagogy Panel: "Analysis and Performance Across the Canon"

01 October 2007 College Music Society 2005 Meeting, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada 1. Kristin Wendland, "The Allure of Tango: Grafting Traditional Performance Practice and Style onto Art-Tangos" 2. Jocelyn Neal, "When Recollection is All We've Got: Analytical Exploration...

From Hultsfred to Nashville: Factors Influencing the Success of a Music Cluster

01 October 2024 Abstract Business Clustering is a phenomenon common in many industries around the world. Technology, manufacturing, and creative industries all experience the clustering of businesses to a certain geographical area to partake in the competitive...

Seduction and Subversion: The Feminist Strategies of Siouxsie and the Banshees

13 December 2017 Academics and creative artists frequently recognize the same tensions, desires, and conflicts that exist in society. They both often sense that which is lacking or out of balance in the social fabric, and express the same criticisms of prevalent...

The Fairbank Collection

01 October 1976 The Newberry Library, Chicago, contains a distinguished music collection, rare book, manuscript, and print holdings, and archives relevant both to the United States (and its Indian populations) and to the city of Chicago. Thus it is understandable that...

On the Doctorate in Composition

01 October 1963 This article was part of a Symposium entitled The Doctorate in Composition. Other contributors to this Symposium were Edward E. Lowinsky, Arthur Mendel, Henry Leland Clarke, George Rochberg, Peter Eliot Stone, and Henry Weinberg. Their articles also...

A Stylistic Analysis of Selected Pop Songs, 1965-1984

01 October 1987 Should the study of popular music be considered a part, perhaps even an integral part, of the public school music curriculum? In 1967, music educators, philosophers, industrialists, scientists, theologians, governmental representatives, and others...

Paul Hindemith's Philosophy of Music and the Role of [i]The Four Temperaments[/i]

01 October 2011 Paul Hindemith formulated his philosophy of music upon two "basic and unalterable musical values," the one, Augustinian, the other, Boethian. He defined the latter as the "power of music, its ethos . . . brought into action upon our mind"; the former,...

On the Matter of a Doctor's Degree for Composers

01 October 1963 entitled The Doctorate in Composition. Other contributors to this Symposium were Arthur Mendel, Henry Leland Clarke, Robert Middleton, George Rochberg, Peter Eliot Stone, and Henry Weinberg. Their articles also appear in SYMPOSIUM Volume 3. Although he...

The Doctorate in Composition

01 October 1963 The Doctorate in Composition. Other contributors to this Symposium were Edward E. Lowinsky, Henry Leland Clarke, Robert Middleton, George Rochberg, Peter Eliot Stone, and Henry Weinberg. Their articles also appear in SYMPOSIUM Volume 3. Although he was...

Make the Doctor of Music an Earned Degree

01 October 1963 entitled The Doctorate in Composition. Other contributors to this Symposium were Edward E. Lowinsky, Arthur Mendel, Robert Middleton, George Rochberg, Peter Eliot Stone, and Henry Weinberg. Their articles also appear in SYMPOSIUM Volume 3. Although he...

Observations on the Ph.D. in Composition

01 October 1963 in Composition. Other contributors to this Symposium were Edward E. Lowinsky, Arthur Mendel, Henry Leland Clarke, Robert Middleton, Peter Eliot Stone, and Henry Weinberg. Their articles also appear in SYMPOSIUM Volume 3. Although he was advised against...

Thoughts on the Ph.D. in Music Composition

01 October 1963 in Composition. Other contributors to this Symposium were Edward E. Lowinsky, Arthur Mendel, Henry Leland Clarke, Robert Middleton, George Rochberg, and Henry Weinberg. Their articles also appear in SYMPOSIUM Volume 3. Although he was advised against...

The Ph.D. in Composition

01 October 1963 in Composition. Other contributors to this Symposium were Edward E. Lowinsky, Arthur Mendel, Henry Leland Clarke, Robert Middleton, George Rochberg, and Peter Eliot Stone. Their articles also appear in SYMPOSIUM Volume 3. Although he was advised against...

Jeff Beck: The Quintessential Postmodern Virtuoso Meets Baudrillard’s Racing Driver and his Double

05 June 2013 Abstract Jean Baudrillard contends that human achievement has become so intertwined with the media, technology, and hypereality that individual accomplishment has become nearly impossible. This generates nostalgia for exceptional talents who can...

Music as Life-Saving Project: Venezuela’s El Sistema in American Neo-Idealistic Imagination

28 April 2014 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...