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CBDNA Report on Preparing the 21st Century Artist–Teacher

The College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA) report on Preparing the 21st Century Artist-‐Teacher is now available. The report is the result of two panel presentations at the 2014 Ithaca College Conference on Instrumental Music Education: Preparing the 21st Century Artist-‐Teacher. I was privileged to be invited to take part in this initiative and engage in dialogue with a wonderful group of people at the conference. The panelists, whose answers to a series of questions make up the report, included:… Read More »CBDNA Report on Preparing the 21st Century Artist–Teacher

Crossfading music education: Connections between secondary students’ in- and out-of-school music experience

To Cite or Download the Article: Tobias, E. S. (2014). Crossfading music education: Connections between secondary students’ in- and out-of- school music experience. International Journal of Music Education, 1-18. doi: 10.1177/0255761413515809 If you do not have institutional access to International Journal of Music Education and would like a copy of the article, contact me via email or with a note in the comment section. My article “Crossfading music education: Connections between secondary students’ in- and out-of-school music experience” is now… Read More »Crossfading music education: Connections between secondary students’ in- and out-of-school music experience

Free Access to “Hybrid spaces and hyphenated musicians: Secondary students’ musical engagement in a Songwriting and Technology Course”

I’m not sure why, but my article “Hybrid spaces and hyphenated musicians: Secondary students’ musical engagement in a Songwriting and Technology Course” is currently available with free access regardless of institutional membership to Music Education Research journal. If you are interested in songwriting, technology, music education, musical engagement, and curriculum, download it before it goes back behind a pay wall! It is always a bit frustrating when research is unavailable to most practitioners so thank you to Taylor and Francis and… Read More »Free Access to “Hybrid spaces and hyphenated musicians: Secondary students’ musical engagement in a Songwriting and Technology Course”

Multimedia, Intermedia, Music, Media Arts, and evolving curricula: Robert Black’s Possessed Project

Throughout the years I’ve found Bang on A Can to be an inspiration for music education. Whether their flexible ensemble structures, their hyphenated musicianship in terms of many members being both composers and performers, their people’s commissioning fund and a broad range of other initiatives, music educators could learn a lot from Bang on a Can’s forward thinking. Most recently the Bang on a Can All-Stars founding member and bassist Robert Black is launching a project entitled Possessed that combines… Read More »Multimedia, Intermedia, Music, Media Arts, and evolving curricula: Robert Black’s Possessed Project

Composing, songwriting, and producing: Diversifying popular music pedagogy

To Cite or Download the Article: Tobias, E. S. (2013). Composing, songwriting, and producing: Diversifying popular music pedagogy. Research Studies in Music Education, 35(2), 213-237. doi:10.1177/1321103X13487466 My article Composing, songwriting, and producing: Informing popular music pedagogy draws on research from my dissertation and addresses an expanded perspective on creating music in the context of producing music. I make a case for broadening how we discuss and address composing and songwriting to include aspects of producing music and also suggest that… Read More »Composing, songwriting, and producing: Diversifying popular music pedagogy