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Editor, Marie McCarthy, History SRIG Chair (1998-2000)
 

Chair-Elect, Carolyn Livingston (1998-2000)

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A Time of Celebration for the HSRIG Community
 

In the last issue of the Newsletter I noted changes that were occurring in the HSRIG community. Reflecting on those changes and developments I realize that there is much to celebrate at this time and I wish to end my term as HSRIG Chair on that note. With the recent publication of the first issue of the Journal of Historical Research in Music Education we celebrate the twenty volumes of the Bulletin of Historical Research in Music Education that established and nurtured scholarship in the history of music education. As we close one chapter and move on to another we look forward to expanding the field of research, in terms of both content and methodology. Congratulations to Jere Humphreys, George Heller, Jeffrey Bush, and the Arizona State University staff on the publication of the first issue under the new title.

We are delighted to learn that an historical dissertation was awarded runner-up (one of two runners-up) in the 1998-1999 Outstanding Dissertation Award in Music Education competition sponsored by the Council for Research in Music Education at the University of Illinois: Christopher Bagby Samuel, "A Biography of Warren Martin: Westminster Choir College's Professor of Music," Arizona State University, 1998. The author will receive the Award during the MENC National Conference in Washington, DC, on March 9.

We will honor and celebrate the distinguished career of Allen P. Britton in "The Historianís Perspective: A Symposium in Tribute to Allen P. Britton" which will take place at the University of Maryland, College Park, on March 6. The range of topics and the scope of scholarship evident in the papers to be presented reflect the growth in historical research since Allen Britton began to promote it in the 1950s, especially during his time as editor of the Journal of Research in Music Education. For further information on the event and a description of the program please see the following website: http://www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/MUSIC/brittsym.html

If you are planning to attend the Symposium and have not contacted me, please do so by March 1. (mm148@umail.umd.edu) If you are unable to attend and wish to send greetings to Allen Britton, please forward your text to my e-mail address and I will have it included in a Book of Greetings that we are preparing to send him after the event.

The History SRIG meeting at the MENC National Conference in Washington, D. C., will be held in the Capitol room at the Omni Shoreham on Friday March 10, 8-9AM. Barbara Finkelstein, Professor of Education, University of Maryland, College Park, will address the topic of "Crossing Borders, Expanding Boundaries: The New Historiography of Education." (See History Notes, October 1999 for details of session.)

Nominations for the History SRIG Chair-Elect

The duties of the National Chair, as outlined in the History SRIG by-laws, are:

1. Management and general affairs of the HSRIG
2. Appointment of Division Chairs
3. Appointment of Chairs of Working Committees
4. The coordination or writing of meeting proposals to the MERC's SRIG Coordinator
5. Presentation of a biennial report to the MERCís SRIG Coordinator
6. Appointment of a Nominating Committee for the National Chair-Elect
7. Serve as the liaison with MERC and with MENC in general
8. General membership development

At the History SRIG meeting those present will vote on the following nominees for the History SRIG Chair-Elect (2000-02).
James T. McRaney has taught for forty years, and is presently the Coordinator of Music Education at Reinhardt College in Waleska, Georgia. He served as adjunct instructor in music education at Mercer University in Atlanta, and taught at the University of Georgia. In 1983, he was named Georgiaís Teacher of the Year by the Georgia Department of Education. He is a founding member of the Georgia Teachers of the Year Association, and served as Executive Director of that group for seven years.
 

James served in many roles in the Georgia Music Educators Association, including President and state Choral Chair.  He was elected President of the Southern Division of MENC, and in that role served on the National Executive Board during the period of the adoption of the national standards. He has also served as Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Georgia Music Educators Association. He is currently in his second term as Southern Division Chair of the History SRIG.  He is GMEA Historian and chair of the newly created GMEA Archives Committee. In this role, he is directing a search for music education materials for a permanent display in the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and Museum.  His 1993 dissertation, A History of the Georgia Music Educators Association: 1922-1993, led to the collection of much historical documentation of the association, including his taped aural interviews of all living past presidents and executive directors of the association.  Subsequently, his materials have served as research tools for two additional historical dissertation preparations.
 

For MENC, James has been a contributor to two publications - Leadership Guide for State Music Education Associations (1986) and Performance Standards for Music: Grades PreK-12 (1996).  He is presently completing the history of the Southern Division of MENC for a book that he is editing, The Seventy-Fifth Anniversary History of the Southern Division of MENC, which will also include brief state histories furnished by the respective historians in the division. In 1998, he presented a review of this preparation to the History SRIG meeting in Phoenix. Several of his historical research articles have been printed in the Georgia Music News.

Roger Rideout is Professor of Music Education at the University of Massachusetts where he coordinates the music education program.  He is a native of Missouri who spent the last twenty years teaching music education courses at Loyola University in New Orleans and at the University of Oklahoma.  He has published over twenty articles in music education periodicals and, presently, is working on a chapter for the upcoming second edition of the Handbook of Research in Music Teaching and Learning.His doctoral dissertation on Granville Stanley Hall and music education (University of Illinois, 1978) began a lifelong interest in the historical and intellectual foundations to music education in America.  He teaches courses in research techniques, philosophy of music education and the role of music in film. He served as History SRIG chair in the Southwest Division while in Oklahoma and in the Southeast Division while at Loyola University. He is published twice in the Bulletin of Historical Research in Music Education.

Music Education History at the Regional Level

At the HSRIG meeting on March 10, we will distribute a questionnaire asking those present for suggestions for developing and documenting activity in music education history at the regional level. Following is the paragraph from the HSRIG By-laws on the duties of the Regional Chairs, and below is a description of a vibrant and ongoing state project in music education history.

Six Division Chairs shall assist the National Chair.  Their duties shall include:
1. Organizing Divisional meetings.
2. Organizing displays and special projects at the Divisional level
3. Working to encourage the appointment of State Historians within each Division
4. Working with State Historians and the National Chair in general membership development
5. Writing a report consisting of a minimum of 200 words on division activities to be included in the National Chairís biennial report
6. Advising the National Chair
7. Assuming other duties as directed by the National Chair

The History of Music and Music Education in Rhode Island Collection
 

Rhode Island has had an impact on music and music education in America since colonial times. The History of Music and Music Education in Rhode Island Collection was started in 1992 when graduate students at the University of Rhode Island were assigned a research paper on some aspect of Rhode Island's history of music or music education. The project is part of a course, Research in Music, taught by Carolyn Livingston, and offered every three semesters. New papers are added to the collection each time the course is taught. The list of possible subjects for future research continues to grow. Papers completed in December 1999 include the following topics: William Billings: His Time in Rhode Island; The History of the Cumberland Instrumental Music Program; Newport Gardner: America's First African American Music Educator; Andrew Law: American Tunesmith; The History of the Lusitana Portuguese American Band; Charles Theodore Pachelbel and His Tenure as Organist at Newport's Trinity Church; and The Life and Achievements of Albert Augustus Stanley. A list of earlier topics that are included in the collection may be found at the website, http://www.uri.edu/artsci/mus/faculty/ripapers.html
 

The entire project was described in the January 1999 edition of the Bulletin of Historical Research in Music Education, Vol. XX, number 2, in Livingston's article, "The History of Music and Music Education in Rhode Island: A Project for Graduate Students." Scholars who would like further information about the project or a copy of a paper in the collection are welcome to email Carolyn Livingston at musiced@uri.edu

Publishing Your Research.

The Journal of Historical Research in Music Educationpublishes articles and reviews pertinent in any way to the history of music education. Authors should submit four copies of the manuscript on 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper, typewritten and double spaced. Manuscripts submitted as articles and reviews should conform to A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 6th ed., revised by John Grossman and Alice Bennett (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). Use numbered endnotes (footnotes) rather than parenthetical references. To preserve anonymity in the review process, authors should place their names, addresses, and institutional affiliations on the title page only. Authors of manuscripts (articles and reviews) accepted for publication will be required to submit the material on a computer disk. Any author submitting a manuscript based on a master's thesis or doctoral dissertation should indicate that fact in a cover letter. Manuscripts should not be submitted simultaneously to more than one journal. Material contained in submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, either in whole or in part. Send manuscripts and queries to: JHRME, Jere T. Humphreys, School of Music, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ  85287-0405 <Jere.Humphreys@asu.edu>. Submit book reviews to: Marie McCarthy, School of Music, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 mm148@umail.umd.edu
 

The annual subscription rate is as follows: students, US$10.00; individuals, US$20.00; institutions, US$40.00. Annual subscriptions run from July through June, with issues appearing in October and April of each year. Back issues from Vols. I-XX (forty-five issues) are US$5.00 each. Complete sets of Vols. I-XX may be purchased for US$200.00. Back issues from Vols. XXI and higher are US$10.00 each for individuals and US$20.00 for institutions. Contact: JHRME, School of Music, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ  85287-0405, USA  jhrme@asu.edu       http://www.asu.edu/cfa/jhrme

Harry Price, editor of the Journal of Research in Music Education, brings our attention to the following change in the Instructions to Contributors for JRME. It used to read, "the entire manuscriptÖ should not exceed 20 twenty pages." The revised Instructions read: "The entire manuscriptÖ generally should not exceed 20 pages." That one word change opens the possibility for somewhat longer manuscripts, should the content warrant it.

Music Education Research is a new international refereed journal (Issue No. 1, March 1999) that includes qualitative and quantitative research methodologies.  MER will include sociological studies and philosophical discourse and is especially interested in encouraging research on "music teaching and learning in styles and traditions outside the European 'classical' tradition." For information on manuscript submission, contact the editor, Sarah Hennessy, Music Education Research Lecturer in Music Education at the University of Exeter, S.J.E.Hennessy@exeter.ac.uk The Book Review Editor is Liz Mellor, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2PH, UK. The Editorial Board includes nine music educators from the UK, and the International Editorial Board includes educators from Sweden, UK, Australia, South Africa, and Canada. For subscription information contact Carfax Publishing at sales@carfax.co.uk or see the web page http://www.carfax.co.uk There will be two issues per year; North American personal rate is $56, Institutional rate is $128.
 

The first issue includes articles on musicking (by Small), teachers as musicians and artists (Upitis, Smithrim, and Soren), secondary music teachers (Cox), authentic music (Swanwick and Lawson), fiddling (Cope), adolescent identity (North and Hargreaves), and Cantonese children's songs (Chen-Hafteck).  For further details and a tale of contents, see http://www.carfax.co.uk/mue-ad.htm

Research Studies in Music Education is an Australian based international refereed journal in music. From June 2000, RSME will be published by the Callaway International Research Centre for Music Education, at the University of Western Australia, in Perth, Australia. Details of subscription costs can be obtained from the inside cover of the journal, or by visiting the journal's web site: http://www.usq.edu.au/faculty/arts/music/Research.htm
Authors are invited to submit papers, articles or reports on research in music education. In general, papers should not exceed 5,000 words. A short abstract of 100-150 words should accompany each paper. Papers submitted for publication will be assessed by at least two referees of international standing. Papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Papers published in whole or in substantial part in another refereed journal or monograph should not be submitted. The editors are A/Professor Gary McPherson (University of New South Wales, Sydney) and Dr. Edward Gifford (Deakin University, Brisbane). The Editorial Board includes prominent music education researchers from the UK, USA, Japan, Sweden, Australia, Germany and Canada. Contributions should be sent to: A/Professor Gary McPherson, School of Music and Music Education, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia. Email: G.McPherson@unsw.edu.au
 

News of History SRIG members

Sondra Howe will be the Musicologist for the Minnesota High School Music Listening Contest for 2000-2001, and will be writing the study guide for the contest.
 

Alan Spurgeon has accepted the position of Southwest Division Chair of the History SRIG.
 

The following HSRIG members will present papers at the Allen P. Britton Symposium at the University of Maryland, College Park, on March 6, 2000: Gordon Cox, Scott Goble, George Heller, Sondra Howe, Estelle Jorgensen, Mei-Ling Lai Kou, Michael Mark, Roger Rideout, Nancy Vogan, and Terese Volk.

Call for Conference Papers

The Fourth Bethlehem Conference on Moravian Music will take place at Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on October 26-29, 2000 The Bethlehem Conferences on Moravian Music are held biennially in late October to celebrate the rich musical tradition of the Moravians; to view this music within Moravian culture in general and in relation to the broader musical culture of its time; to cultivate interest in Moravia scholarship among college students and younger scholars; and to present the results of these studies in programs of interest to the general public, scholars, and performers. This year, we celebrate the 300th anniversary of the birth of Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf, eighteenth-century renewer of the Moravian Church and founder of the city of Bethlehem, PA; as well as the 300th anniversary of the invention of the modern pianoforte. We are now accepting proposals for papers, lecture/ demonstrations, and performances. (The deadline for proposals is May 15, 2000.) Topics should fall into one of the following categories: 1. the life, works, and influence of Zinzendorf; 2. Moravian music and liturgy; 3. the role of the piano in nineteenth-century American society and culture; 4. American/ Moravian music for the piano; 5. historical performance practices on the early piano.

Proposals may be sent via conventional mail, FAX, or e-mail to: Dr. Carol Traupman-Carr, Co-chair, Fourth Bethlehem Conference on Moravian Music, Moravian College, 1200 Main Street, Bethlehem PA 18018-6650; FAX: 610-861-1657 E-mail: caroltcarr@moravian.edu

Recent Publications
 

Books
Mark, Michael L., and Charles L. Gary. A History Of American Music Education. 2nd ed. Reston, VA: MENCóThe National Association for Music Education, 1999.

Olmstead, Andrea. Juilliard: A History. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1999.

Pitts, Stephanie E. A Century of Change in Music Education: Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Practice in British Secondary School Music. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2000.
 

Book Chapters, Periodicals, Yearbooks, and Proceedings
"Bennett Reimer: Curriculum Vitae." Journal of Aesthetic Education 33 (Winter 1999): 195-203.

Britton, Allen P. "Doctoral Programs in Music Education: A Personal Perspective." In Vistas of American Music: Essays and Compositions in Honor of William K. Kearns, ed. Susan L. Porter and John Graziano, 5-16. Warren, MI: Harmonie Park Press, 1999.

Davenport, Linda G. "Practicality, Patriotism, and Piety: Principal Motivators for Maine Tunebook Compilers, 1794-1830." In Vistas of American Music: Essays and Compositions in Honor of William K. Kearns, ed. Susan L. Porter and John Graziano, 63-76. Warren, MI: Harmonie Park Press, 1999.

De Couve, Alicia C., and Claudia Dal Pino. "Historical Panorama of Music Education in Latin Americda: Music Training Institutions." International Journal of Music Education 34 (1999): 30-46.

Howe, Sondra Wieland. "Austrian Music Textbooks in the Mason-McConathy Collection." Journal of Historical Research in Music Education 21 (October 1999): 84-96.

Howe, Sondra Wieland. "Dora Pejacevic," article and edition of two piano pieces, Women Composers: Music Through the Ages,vol. 6 (New York: G. K. Hall, 1999), 431-46.

Howe, Sondra Wieland. "Education: History" and "Education: Methodologies" in Readerís Guide to Music: History, Criticism, Theory (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999), 215-18.

Howe, Sondra Wieland. "Luther Whiting Mason: International Music Educator from Maine," Bulletin, Maine Music Educators Association 36, no. 1 (Fall 1998): cover, 36-38, 40.

Jones, Daniel C. L. "Early American Psalmody and the Core Repertory: A Perspective." In Vistas of American Music: Essays and Compositions in Honor of William K. Kearns, ed. Susan L. Porter and John Graziano, 39-62. Warren, MI: Harmonie Park Press, 1999.

Karpf, Juanita. "The Vocal Teacher of Ten Thousand: E. Azalia Hackley as Community Music Educator, 1910?22." Journal of Research in Music Education 47 (Winter 1999): 319-330.

Katz, Mark. "Making America More Musical through the Phonograph, 1900-1930." American Music 19 (Winter 1998): 448-475.

Kelly, Steven N. "John Barnes Chance and His Contributions to Music Education." Journal of Historical Research in Music Education 21 (October 1999): 21-40.

Livingston, Carolyn. "The WPA Music Program as Exemplified in the Career of Charles Faulkner Bryan." Journal of Historical Research in Music Education 21 (October 1999): 3-20.

Mathis, Russell. "ACDAís Forty-Year Journey." Choral Journal 40 (November 1999): 9-23.

Mark, Michael L. "A Historical Interpretation of Aesthetic Education." Journal of Aesthetic Education 33 (Winter 1999): 7-15.

Mark, Michael L. "Music Education since Mid-Century: The Role of the Music Educators National Conference." Journal of Aesthetic Education 33 (Fall 1999): 79-92.

Martin, Blair. "The Influence and Function of Shape Notes and Singing Schools in the Twentieth Century: An Historical Study of the Church of God."  Journal of Historical Research in Music Education 21 (October 1999): 62-83.

Martin, Michael D. "Band Schools of the United States: A Historical Overview." Journal of Historical Research in Music Education 21 (October 1999): 41-61.

Price, Harry, and Evelyn K. Orman. "MENC National Conferences, 1984?1998: A Content Analysis." UPDATE: Applications of Research in Music Education 18 (Fall?Winter 1999): 26-32.

Reese, Sam. "More than Just Words." Journal of Aesthetic Education 33 (Winter 1999): 161-177. [biography of Bennett Reimer]

Smith, Ralph A. "Harry S. Broudy (1905-1998): A Life Devoted to Enlightened Cherishing."  Journal of Aesthetic Education 33 (Spring 1999): 1-10.
Reviews

Heller, George N. Review of Modern Historiography: An Introduction, by Michael Bentley, and In Defense of History, by Richard J. Evans. Journal of Historical Research in Music Education 21 (October 1999): 97-101.

McCarthy, Marie. Review of Luther Whiting Mason: International Music Educator, by Sondra Wieland Howe. Journal of Historical Research in Music Education 21 (October 1999): 101-104.

HSRIG OFFICERS

* Chair: Marie McCarthy, School of Music, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.  E-mail: mm148@umail.umd.edu
* Vice-Chair: Carolyn Livingston, Department of Music, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881.  E-mail: musiced@uriacc.uri.edu
* Past Chair: Sondra Wieland Howe, 135 Chevy Chase Drive, Wayzata, MN 55391  E-mail: howex009@tc.umn.edu
* Eastern Division Chair: Patrick M. Jones, Fredonia School of Music, State University of New York, Fredonia, NY 14063. E-mail: jonesp@fredonia.edu
* North Central Division Chair: Jean Fickett, 1175D Arbor Drive, East Lansing, MI 48823 E-mail: fickettj@pilot.msu.edu
* Northwestern Division Chair: Gary Nakayama, 14402 144th St. E, Orting, WA 98360.
* Southern Division Chair: James T. McRaney, 2636 Whiteleigh Court, Atlanta, GA 30345. E-mail: JMcRaney@aol.com
* Southwestern Division Chair: Alan Spurgeon, RR 2 Box 85, Weatherford, OK 73096-9534. E-mail: spurgeon@hpnts.net
* Western Division Chair: Aubrey Penman, 4333 Alderwood Way, Sacramento, CA 95864
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