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2nd Symposium on LGBT Studies & Music Education in october 2012

The 2nd Symposium on LBGT Studies and Music Education will take place  in collaboration with the Consortium for Research on Equity in Music Education (CREME) October 18-19 2012. This purpose of the second symposium is to encourage, promote, and disseminate discourse regarding intersection of LGBT topics and music education. The symposium seeks to reveal how LGBT issues operate within music education in terms of research, curriculum, teacher preparation, and the musical lives and careers of LGBT music students and teachers.… Read More »2nd Symposium on LGBT Studies & Music Education in october 2012

Women composers in music programs?

To what extent are women composers represented in our music programs? To what extent are our music programs providing opportunities for young women to think of themselves as composers? Kerry Andrew recently problematized a gender imballance between the ratio of male to female composers present in contemporary society in a UK Guardian article entitled Why there are so few female composers. While she addresses several issues that contribute to this challenge the following passage invites music educators to take a… Read More »Women composers in music programs?

Awareness of State School Board Association Perspectives on Music Education?

In December of 2011 the New York State School Boards Association (NYSSBA) released a report entitled “The New 3 Rs: Reducing, Restructuring and Redesigning.” The NYSSBA New 3 Rs website includes the following text in refererence to the report: “The New 3 Rs analyzes the impact of the state’s new property tax cap on school districts, provides recommendations for state lawmakers to allow schools to operate more efficiently, and suggest ideas for local school boards to consider in order to… Read More »Awareness of State School Board Association Perspectives on Music Education?

Has music education changed since 1970? On students who rock. . .

David Bornstein recently wrote two opinion pieces for the New York times regarding music education. The first “Beyond Baby Mozart, Students Who Rock” focuses on Bornstein’s perspective on the state of music education and the Little Kids Rock organization. The second “Rock is Not the Enemy,” does a nice job of integrating a wide range of reader comments from the first opinion piece. In the first opinion piece Bornstein writes: Music education hasn’t changed fundamentally since the 1970s. Students are… Read More »Has music education changed since 1970? On students who rock. . .