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A History of Ten Influential Women in Music Education 1885-1997

Shifflet, Brian R
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1182255855

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2007, Master of Music (MM), Bowling Green State University, Music Education/Comprehensive Music Education.
The purpose of this study was to write a history of ten influential women in music education between 1885 and 1997. The ten women in this study were grouped as (a) Founders of Schools of Music: Clara Baur (1835-1912), Mary Louis Curtis Bok (1876- 1970), Julia Crane (1855-1923); (b) MENC Presidents: MaBelle Glenn (1881-1969), Lilla Belle Pitts (1884-1970), and Marguerite Hood (1903-1992); and (c) Innovative Music Educators: Weenona Poindexter (1872-1952), Elizabeth Green (1925-1995), Eunice Boardman, Mary Henderson Palmer (b. 1944). I gathered primary sources from the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati, The Cincinnati Public Library, The Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan, the Gant Library at the Mississippi State University for Women, and the Music Educators National Conference Historical Center. I obtained secondary sources through interlibrary loan, OHIOLink, the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and the Crane School of Music in Potsdam, New York. Implications for music education included (a) the ten women in this thesis can all serve as role models for future and practicing music educators; (b) since these women do not appear to be sufficiently represented in current music education history texts, it seems that biographies of them should be included in graduate or undergraduate music education courses; and (c) the importance of including these women in middle school or high school general music curricula, perhaps most appropriately during Women’s history month in March. Suggestions for further research included acquiring more in-depth information about some of the women in this study, especially Mary Curtis Bok and Marguerite Hood, who appear to have had very little research done about them. Also, additional research on women not included in this study who have made important contributions to music education seems warranted.
Vincent Kantorski (Advisor)
Education, Music
WOMEN IN MUSIC EDUCATION

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  • Shifflet, B. R. (2007). A History of Ten Influential Women in Music Education 1885-1997 [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1182255855

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Shifflet, Brian. A History of Ten Influential Women in Music Education 1885-1997. 2007. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1182255855.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Shifflet, Brian. "A History of Ten Influential Women in Music Education 1885-1997." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1182255855

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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