Paying Attention to Music and Baseball: Listening to the Savannah Bananas

13 May 2026 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...

The Teacher's Guide to Recent Recordings of Music by Black Composers

01 October 1973 This discography is restricted to "concert" music by composers of African ancestry, regardless of the country of their birth. I acknowledge immediately that several of the figures listed are represented on recordings by works in other genres (e.g.,...

A Brief Guide for the Appointment of Visionary Music School Deans and Chairs

01 May 2023 broad spectrum of decanal leaders at a time when American higher education is itself in broad need of reform. authors: Robert S. Freeman author_ids: 683 authors: Robert S. Freeman author_ids: 683

On the Mission of The College Music Society

31 August 1997 is of importance to our common future, if not a continuing openness to questions of the kinds just reviewed? authors: Robert S. Freeman author_ids: 683 authors: Robert S. Freeman author_ids: 683

Connecting Music to Ethics

30 November 2018 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...

Poking the Pillars: A Preliminary Evaluation of Integration, Diversity, and Creativity

01 January 2016 An earlier version of this article was presented as part of the special session, "Integration, Diversity, and Creativity: Reflections on the 'Manifesto' from The College Music Society," at the Society for Music Theory annual meeting, St. Louis, October...

Women Orchestral Conductors in America: The Struggle for Acceptance—An Historical View from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

01 October 1998 Introduction Orchestral conducting has been the latest door of opportunity to open for women in the field of music. Although women have been actively involved in performance, composition, teaching, and patronage from the history of the ancient Greeks...

Saying Something Else: Improvisation and Music-Play Facilitation in a Medical Ethnomusicology Program for Children on the Autism Spectrum

01 October 2008 Studies of social and interactive processes in music improvisation constitute an important dimension of contemporary ethnomusicological research.1 The range of topics, issues, and traditions addressed is vast, yet one may identify across this...

Towards Future Leadership in America’s Music Schools

23 September 2017 The areas of specialization taught in America’s colleges and universities have, of course, changed over time, just as American society itself has evolved. The earliest collegiate music schools that still exist, founded immediately after the Civil War,...