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Part of Cremin's well-known trilogy on the history of American education
In this book the author, an anthropologist, traces the history of historiography through numerous past literature cultures. He tested and rejected several hypotheses, but retained on that historiography was strongest in societies in which leadership was not determined by hereditary--relatively speaking.
Compared to the relatively steady spread of vocal music instruction, instrumental music was slow to take its place in the school curriculum. Orchestras, based on community models, and bands, based on military band models, entered the schools in mass beginning in the first decades of the twentieth century. By the beginning of World War II, spurred on by instrument manufacturers, contests, and athletics, bands were found in most American high schools and orchestras were in many schools as well, mainly in larger cities.
This book and a companion volume are intended to provide the field of music education with "a needed current repository of exemplary theoretical writing and experimental research reporting from the United States." This article was published by the University of Alabama Press in 1988.
The authors present a fresh new approach to music education. This article was published by Columbia University Teachers College Press in 1984.
A review of a book written by U.K. scholar Peter Fletcher, published by Oxford University Press in 1987.
