Music Education in America's Public Normal Schools
Celebratory and Troubled Beginnings of Music Teacher Education
Music Education in America's Public Normal Schools
Celebratory and Troubled Beginnings of Music Teacher Education
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Description
This book provides a history of music education (1839–1960), capturing the beginning of music participation and engagement in many of the public universities that started as normal schools.
The normal schools of the 19th and 20th centuries each had their own identity, curricular policies, networks of stakeholders, music education coursework, and collaborative-performing opportunities. The contributing authors argue that arts education, specifically music, was part of the curriculum in the first public normal schools in America, which provided rich democratic arts experiences to its teacher-education students. Their embodied music experiences would live on to impact music teaching and learning curriculum not only in the k-12 schools where they taught, but nearly two centuries of music education in the colleges and universities from which they stem.
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Foreword, Christine A. Ogren
Preface, Jill M. Sullivan
Introduction, Jill M. Sullivan
1. Establishing Normal School Music, Jill M. Sullivan
2. The Music Course Offerings, Degrees and Certifications of Twelve American Normal Schools, Lori T. Gray
3. “A Trained Teacher in Every Classroom” Music and Belonging in Brave Nation, Joanna Ross Hersey
4. The Non-Public Normal School: The National Normal University of Lebanon, Ohio, Brian D. Meyers
5. Musically-Infused Teacher Training: Music Education at the New Jersey State Normal School at Trenton, Tim Nowak
6. Normal College of the City of New York: Music Department and Education Program, Vincent Brancato
7. Mary McLeod Bethune and the Rise of Music Education at the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute, Tavious J. Peterkin and Roger E. Anderson
8. Music in the Eastern Illinois State Normal School, Danelle Larson
9. Music Education in the Normal Schools of Minnesota, Sondra Howe
10. Music in the Winona Normal School, Alana Shields and Melanie Brooks Dinh
11. The Northern Arizona Normal School: Its Music and Music Teachers, 1899–1925, Roger E. Anderson and Therese Kerbey
12. The Lives and Teaching Of Three Music Teachers at the Tempe Territorial Normal School: 1895–1916, Alison Sorensen
13. Tracing the Evolution of Music Curriculum and Faculty at the Tempe Normal School, 1886 to 1905, Zihe Gao
14. San Jose Normal: A Transformative Institution 1862–1921, Diana M. Hollinger
Conclusion
Index
Product details
| Published | Dec 11 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 432 |
| ISBN | 9781978766181 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 34 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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