scholarly journals CanCon and the Canon

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 201-213
Author(s):  
Robin Elliott
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Music History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Introductory Courses ◽  
Canadian Music ◽  
University Level ◽  
History Survey ◽  
Canadian Content

Canadian music is almost completely absent from university-level textbooks used in this country, most of which are published in the United States. Canadian content typically is added to a music history survey course, if at all, at the end of the chronological account. This article argues for a different approach, one in which Canadian content is integrated into the survey course from the medieval era to the present day. Introductory courses in ethnomusicology could also include Canadian music materials at many different points.

A comparative study of piano performance programs at university-level institutions in China and the United States: From current faculty members’ and students’ perspectives

2021 ◽  
pp. 025576142110657
Author(s):  
Yuan Jiang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Prospective Students ◽  
Piano Performance ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Challenging Tasks ◽  
Applied Lessons ◽  
University Level ◽  
And Performance

This study investigated the perceptions of piano performance programs in higher education from current collegiate students and faculty members’ perspectives in China and the United States. Participants were from representative university-level institutions in the U.S. ( n = 41) and China ( n = 130). They were sent a questionnaire concerning (a) the factors that motivate students to pursue a piano performance degree, (b) the most important educational practices in their programs, (c) the most challenging tasks the students encounter, (d) students’ career goal, and (e) faculty members’ suggestions for prospective students and opinions on improving the piano performance programs. A summary of students and faculty members’ perceptions were outlined and the comparison between the two countries were explored. It is encouraging that not only students gave careful attention toward the applied lessons and performance opportunities in their studies, but also that a large percentage of the students believed they received excellent advice regarding practice strategies and artistry in their applied lessons in both countries. Most of the faculty participants in both countries expressed positive attitudes regarding the piano performance programs in their universities. By providing statistically significant data, this study provides a comprehensive vision for institutions to continue establishing piano programs.

Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Abelson Macleod
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
New Woman ◽  
Music History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Milieu ◽  
Artistic Life ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
Carnegie Hall

One of the foremost piano virtuosi of her time, Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler reliably filled Carnegie Hall. As a “new woman,” she simultaneously embraced family life and forged an independent career built around a repertoire of the German music she tirelessly championed. Yet after her death she faded into obscurity. This first book-length biography reintroduces a figure long, and unjustly, overlooked by music history. Trained in Vienna, Bloomfield-Zeisler significantly advanced the development of classical music in the United States. Her powerful and sensitive performances, both in piano recitals and with major orchestras, won her followers across the United States and Europe and often provided her American audiences with their first exposure to the pieces she played. The European-style salon in her Chicago home welcomed musicians, scientists, authors, artists, and politicians, while her marriage to attorney Sigmund Zeisler placed her at the center of a historical moment when he defended the anarchists in the 1886 Haymarket trial. In its re-creation of a musical and social milieu, the book paints a vivid portrait of a dynamic artistic life.

scholarly journals Students’ Perception on the Relative Fairness of Selected Educational Accommodations

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randall Boen ◽  
Thomas D. Upton ◽  
Nicole Knickmeyer ◽  
Azzahrah Anuar
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public University ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
University Level ◽  
Educational Accommodations

The purpose of this study is to assess the relative fairness of selected educational accommodations provided to peers who have disabilities. This study utilized two scales developed by Upton (2000) which quantifies the relative fairness that students perceive towards the provision of selected educational accommodations. The findings of this study yielded evidence to support that level of education at a university level might have an influence on the students’ perceptions about educational accommodations offered to the students with disabilities. These surveys were distributed to around 409 students at a mid-size southern public university in the United States. Implications of these findings and suggestions for future research are provided.Keywords: students with disabilities; educational accommodations

The Politics of Tax Reform

1986 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Gerald M. Pomper
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Tax Reform ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
American Government ◽  
Introductory Courses ◽  
National Debate ◽  
Democratic Polity

“No representation without taxation” could easily be the motto of American democracy. Like any other government, the United States cannot operate without taxes, and the politics of taxation reveals the workings of our democratic polity. The current national debate over tax reform offers an unusual opportunity to enliven introductory courses in American government.

Escaping the Folk

2018 ◽  
pp. 148-172
Author(s):  
Kevin D. Greene
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Black Identity ◽  
Music History ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Large Field ◽  
Pop Music ◽  
Predominately White ◽  
Black Experience

Since 1955, when a Belgian jazz writer helped scribe the first book investigating Big Bill’s life and music, dozens of artists, scholars, journalists, and enthusiasts have left a long trail of written work dedicated to Broonzy and his past. Well into the twenty-first century, this trend continues. These brokers of Broonzy’s life, music, and public memory have shaped and reshaped his story reflecting each respective generation’s own understandings of race, celebrity, blues music, and the black experience in the United States, among other themes. In a sense, Broonzy has become a cipher for unlocking important questions about authenticity, folklore, black identity, music history, and more to a large field of predominately white authors. For nearly sixty-five years, Big Bill and his history pop up along a long trajectory of studies that have viewed him as an object of intrigue and mystery rather than how he wanted to be remembered. Big Bill was an African American, pre-war, pop music celebrity who built and reached the height of that celebrity recording and performing for black audiences. Unearthing his vague, working class past has prevented history from accepting Big Bill for what he was—an agent of black modernity.

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