Reconsidering the Composer-Educator in Postwar America

Autor/in	Mukherjee, Anoosua
Titel	Reconsidering the Composer-Educator in Postwar America
Quelle	In: Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 40 (2019) 2, S.170-192 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1536-6006
DOI	10.1177/1536600617743012
Schlagwörter	Music Education; Music Teachers; College Faculty; Musical Composition; Historiography; Classical Music; Educational Change; Case Studies; Textbooks; Departments; Teacher Student Relationship; Mentors; Leadership; Educational History + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Musikerziehung; Music; Teacher; Teachers; Musiklehrer; Fakultät; Komponieren; Geschichtsschreibung; Bildungsreform; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Textbook; Text book; Schulbuch; Lehrbuch; Department; Abteilung; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Führung; Führungsposition; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte
Abstract	By the middle of the twentieth century, American universities had evolved into powerful institutions with aggressive cultural agendas. Renewed interest in the arts provided a platform for composers employed by these universities to grow into powerful civic leaders. This article investigates the contributions of four modernist composers--Walter Piston, Roger Sessions, William Schuman, and David Diamond,--who held academic and administrative posts at Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of California at Berkeley, and the Juilliard School of Music. During this period, these four composers used their academic positions to shape American classical music culture--not through their compositions--but by overhauling music departments, authoring textbooks, and extending the reach of universities and conservatories far beyond the campus walls. This project relies on primary and secondary sources, weaving together academic records, administrative reports, and composer correspondence into a narrative of educational reform, cultural patronage, and even urban renewal. This article endeavors to widen the historiographic focus on postwar composers like the Four to reconsider their relevance as music educators, cultural authorities, and practitioners of modernism outside of the concert hall. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01