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A History of Three African-American Women Who Made Important Contributions to Music Education Between 1903 and 1960

Patterson, DeAnna Rose

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2007, Master of Music (MM), Bowling Green State University, Music Education.
The purpose of this study was to write a history of three African-American women who made important contributions to music education between 1903 and 1960. The three women who are presented in this study are Emma Azalia Smith Hackley (1867 – 1922), Harriet Gibbs Marshall (1869 – 1941), and Lulu Vere Childers (1870 – 1946). Emma Azalia Smith Hackley established the Vocal Normal Institute of Chicago, Illinois. Harriet Gibbs Marshall founded the Washington Conservatory of Music and School of Expression in Washington, D.C. Lulu Vere Childers was responsible for developing the small music program at Howard University in Washington, D.C. first into a Conservatory of Music, and then into a School of Music. I gathered information for this thesis from both primary and secondary sources. For primary sources, I obtained information about Emma Azalia Smith Hackley from the Detroit Public Library, which has a collection of rare African-American music, drama, and dance materials, including those of Hackley. I also visited the University of Detroit Mercy Library to acquire rare newspapers that featured articles pertaining to all three women. In addition, I contacted the Moorland–Springarn Research Center at Howard University in Washington, D.C. for information about Childers and Marshall. I used the following online databases as secondary resources: (a) Music Index, (b) WorldCat, (c) Music Educators National Conference, (d) ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, (e) Music Education Resource Base, and (f) Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval Service System. Implications for music education included the importance of raising the awareness of the significant contributions to music education made by the African-American women in this study. One of several suggestions for further research was that similar historical studies should be done about other African-American women and men in music education.
Vincent Kantorski (Advisor)
45 p.

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  • Patterson, D. R. (2007). A History of Three African-American Women Who Made Important Contributions to Music Education Between 1903 and 1960 [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1182182858

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Patterson, DeAnna. A History of Three African-American Women Who Made Important Contributions to Music Education Between 1903 and 1960. 2007. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1182182858.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Patterson, DeAnna. "A History of Three African-American Women Who Made Important Contributions to Music Education Between 1903 and 1960." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1182182858

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)