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Women Music Educators in the United States
A History
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2013
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Although women have been teaching and performing music for centuries, their stories are often missing from traditional accounts of the history of music education. In Women Music Educators in the United States: A History, Sondra Wieland Howe provides a comprehensive narrative of women teaching music in the United States from colonial days until the end of the twentieth century. Defining music education broadly to include home, community, and institutional settings, Howe draws on sources from musicology, the history of education, and social history to offer a new perspective on the topic.
In colonial America, women sang in church choirs and taught their children at home. In the first half of the nineteenth century, women published hymns, taught in academies and rural schoolhouses, and held church positions. After the Civil War, women taught piano and voice, went to college, taught in public schools, and became involved in national music organizations. With the expansion of public schools in the first half of the twentieth century, women supervised public school music programs, published textbooks, and served as officers of national organizations. They taught in settlement houses and teacher-training institutions, developed music appreciation programs, and organized women’s symphony orchestras. After World War II, women continued their involvement in public school choral and instrumental music, developed new methodologies, conducted research, and published in academia. Howe’s study traces this evolution in the roles played by women educators in the American music education system, illuminating an area of research that has been ignored far too long.
Women Music Educators in the United States: A History complements current histories of music education and supports undergraduate and graduate courses in the history of music, music education, American education, and women’s studies. It will interest not only musicologists, educational historians, and scholars of women’s studies, but music educators teaching in public and private schools and independent music teachers.
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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-8847-0
ISBN-Online
978-0-8108-8848-7
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
338
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Illustrations No access
Acknowledgments No access
Acronyms and Abbreviations No access
Introduction No access
Chapter One. Colonial and Revolutionary America No access
Chapter Two. Antebellum America (1790–1860) No access
Chapter Three. Music in the Private Sphere, Churches, and Community No access
Chapter Four. Music in the Public Sphere: School Music, Publishing, and Teacher Training No access
Chapter Five. Music Organizations in the Nineteenth Century No access
Chapter Six. Music Supervisors in the Public Schools No access
Chapter Seven. Classroom Music, Music Appreciation, and Choirs No access
Chapter Eight. Instrumental Music No access
Chapter Nine. Publications: Textbooks, Piano Methods, and Folk Music No access
Chapter Ten. Music in the Community No access
Chapter Eleven. Music Education Organizations (1900–1945) No access
Chapter Twelve. Higher Education: Institutes, Normal Schools, Conservatories, and Universities No access
Chapter Thirteen. New Methodologies: Dalcroze, Orff, Kodály, and Suzuki No access
Chapter Fourteen. Music Education Organizations since 1945 No access
Chapter Fifteen. Publications: Textbooks, Piano Methods, and Journals No access
Chapter Sixteen. Choirs, Orchestras, Bands, and Conductors No access
Postlude No access Pages 307 - 310
Bibliography No access Pages 311 - 322
Index No access Pages 323 - 336
About the Author No access Pages 337 - 338
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