Volume 65, No. 1

Articles: Scholarship and Research

• Retention and Recruitment of Students of Underrepresented Populations in Music Teacher Education (Part II)
  Suzanne N. Hall, Angelica Brooks, Robert L. Bryant III, Kathleen C. Doutt, Raychl Smith, and Brian N. Weidner
  Abstract

  | https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2025.65.sr.11670

  Burnout has been documented in a variety of countries among postsecondary educators, but studies of college/university music faculty are sparse. The researcher examined the experience of burnout across three dimensions—Emotional Exhaustion (EE), Depersonalization (DP), and Personal Accomplishment (PA)—among 310 college/university music faculty across the United States and explored demographic characteristics that predicted scores in each dimension. Burnout rates were significantly higher among the music faculty compared to a normative population, with EE demonstrating the strongest effect size. Stepwise multiple regression identified several demographic characteristics as predictive of burnout in the various burnout dimensions. While both more teaching hours and more hours at all employment predicted higher EE scores, being older, working at a four-year private institution, teaching associate degree-seeking students, and assistant professor rank predicted lower emotional exhaustion. More teaching hours, more hours at all employment, and being married cohabitating with spouse predicted higher DP while increasing age and Assistant Professor rank predicted lower DP. Finally, increasing age, pretenure status, and being single but living with others raised PA, thus protecting against burnout. Music faculty teaching at four-year public colleges/universities experienced significantly higher EE, a finding moderated both by number of hours spent on teaching activities, and total number of hours spent working at all employment per week. Taken together, results suggest that teaching more hours per week, working more hours per week at all employment, and teaching at a four-year public institution heighten the risk for burnout among music faculty.

• Professional Quality of Life among Music Faculty in Higher Education
  Jennifer Gee and Karen Koner , Jennifer Gee , Karen Koner
  https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2025.65.sr.11671
• Musculoskeletal Pain/Discomfort in Collegiate Conductors: Incidence of Injury and Use of Personal and Instructional Prevention Strategies
  Caron Daley, Greg Marchetti, Elena Donoso Brown, and Brooke Foundas
  Abstract

  | https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2025.65.sr.11672

  Musculoskeletal health in conductors is an underexplored topic within occupational studies of musicians and the pedagogical literature in conducting. The current mixed methods survey study investigated (1) the prevalence and severity of pain/discomfort associated with conducting among collegiate-level conductors, (2) the personal and environmental factors that contribute to conducting pain/discomfort, (3) the use of prevention behaviors to mediate this pain/discomfort, and (4) prior instruction in injury prevention, body wellness, and movement methodologies, including integration of these topics into conducting instruction at the collegiate level. Twenty-eight percent of collegiate conductors (n=224) reported currently experiencing pain/discomfort that impacts their ability to conduct or perform their conducting responsibilities, while sixty percent reported ever-experiencing pain/discomfort. Seventy-four percent of conductors who had ever-experienced pain/discomfort reported that personal and environmental stressors contributed to their pain/discomfort, and ninety-six percent of these conductors reported altering their conducting activities to manage this pain/discomfort. Only twenty-seven percent of collegiate conductors had prior instruction in body wellness, injury prevention, or movement methodologies as a part of their formal conducting instruction. Collegiate conductor-educators value this information, however, and seventy-six percent incorporate related information in their conducting instruction at least once per semester. This investigation brings awareness to the complex nature of musculoskeletal health in conductors, the need for further investigation into the relative contribution of conducting activities to musculoskeletal injury, and to the integration of embodied pedagogies and health prevention topics within conducting instruction at the collegiate level.

• Philippe Entremont at 90: A Consideration of His Pedagogy and Artistic Legacy
  Teresa Davidian
  https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2025.65.sr.11673