School students' immersion in a rich entertainment media environment has implications for classroom listening. Increasing interaction among media, design, games, communications and arts fields has led to a growing trend in the creative alignment of music and moving image. Video sharing sites such as YouTube are assisting in the proliferation and…

Our reception and perception, our experience of music, has been profoundly determined by our technological devices and media. Whatever music we happen to like and listen to, we can hardly experience it today apart from its production and reproduction in and through technology. The effects of technology on making and hearing music require critical…

Using a qualitative approach, I study two processes of intra-organizational cooperation and coordination--control and trust--in creative organizations. Specifically, I analyze the complex nature of trust-control relationships in Orpheus orchestra, the world's largest contemporary conductorless orchestra. I discuss how it rehearses and performs…

The purpose of this article is to examine the strands and goals which arise from the four principles of "Empowerment; Holistic Development; Family and Community and Relationships" ("Te Whariki," 1996) and to propose how music can be used in an integral way not only to meet the stated goals but also to promote them to their…

Most music educators are unaware that one of the earliest known electronic music keyboards for children dates back to 1952. It was unsophisticated in appearance, but much like the inventions of today, the mid-century electronic musical toy piqued the interest of children, and they begged their parents to buy it for them. The invention was named…

For the past century and more, music education in the United States has focused primarily on Western European music traditions. Despite considerable efforts to include music from other regions and peoples in the curriculum, traditional music from world cultures is still not greatly represented. The benefits of a curriculum that incorporates…

This study examines patterns of organized activity and their concurrent association with academic achievement, problem behavior, and perceived adult support in a sample of urban, early adolescent, middle school students (mean age = 13.01; N = 2,495). Cluster analyses yielded six activity profiles: an uninvolved group (n = 775, 31.1%), a multiply…

The author, a street musician herself, tells the story of her experiences making a living from playing music in the streets, an activity that she describes as "somewhere between the practice room and the recital hall". (Author/RK)

Author recounts his experiences in the Philippines at the dedication of the National Arts Center in 1973. (RK)

The purpose of this presentation was to: (1) describe the history of women's music in the United States; (2) define women's music; (3) report on the status of the large women's recording companies; and (4) focus on a recent controversy in the women's music industry involving the desire for political purity versus the need for economic security.…

Provided information about rental procedures for performance materials for musical works and an order form supplied by the Music Publisher's Association of the United States and the American Symphony Orchestra League. (Author/RK)

The list of works for band presented in this article was prepared as one of the projects of the MENC Bicentennial Commission. (Author/RK)

An assessment is made of the scope of music education, including dance and opera, in junior colleges during the 1969-70 academic year. A questionnaire was mailed to the chairmen of music departments in 200 2-year colleges. Of the 154 who responded, 109 reported accredited transfer music programs and 29 reported offering music courses and…