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.
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.
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.
Part of Cremin's well-known trilogy on the history of American education
A comprehensive philosophy of music education in opposition to music education as aesthetic education.
This book presents methods of applying statistical analysis to historical data.