The ''Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education'' is a quarterly
academic journal
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covering
music education. It is published by the
University of Illinois Press
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on behalf of the
Council for Research in Music Education.
History
The journal was established in 1963 by
Charles Leonhard and
Richard J. Colwell at the
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
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as ''Council of Research in Music Education'' and obtained its current name in the following year.
The initial volume was published as part of "plans for an organization to encourage research in music education
hich had
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been in process for more than a year." Its contents reflected two perceived needs for research in music education: (a) the need "for a means through which interest may be stimulated, guidance may be given, and some actual assistance offered to would-be researchers," and (b) the need "of disseminating information concerning research which has already taken place, whose findings the teacher may utilize in teaching, this being, after all, the basic purpose of such research."
Scope
The journal focuses mainly on quantitative and qualitative studies in music education, but also publishes invited essays,
book review
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s,
dissertation reviews, and conference proceedings. Notable contributors include
Harry Broudy,
Elliot W. Eisner,
David J. Elliott,
Howard Gardner
Howard Earl Gardner (born July 11, 1943) is an American developmental psychologist and the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. He is curr ...
,
Edwin E. Gordon, Janet Mills, and
Bennett Reimer.
Editors
The founding
editor-in-chief
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was Richard J. Colwell, who edited the journal (vols. 1–44 & 48–103). Other editors have included
Marilyn P. Zimmerman (vols. 104–124),
Eunice Boardman (vols. 118–139),
John W. Grashel (vols. 119–146),
Deborah A. Sheldon (vols. 144–150),
Gregory F. DeNardo (vols. 151–189), and Eve Harwood (interim editor, vols. 190–197). The current editor is Janet R. Barrett.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in the
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
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and
Current Contents
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History
''Cur ...
/Arts & Humanities.
Outstanding Dissertation Award in Music Education
The journal sponsors the Outstanding Dissertation Award in Music Education (ODA). Dissertations written by recent graduates of doctoral programs in music education are nominated by university faculty and reviewed by members of the journal's advisory committee and other reviewers selected by the editor. Based on their recommendations, the editor and a select panel of judges choose the winner. The winner is then announced in the print version.
[For example, see DeNardo, G. F. (2011). Editor’s notes. ''Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, 187'', 4.] In the past, the ODA winner has been honored at a special session sponsored by the Council for Research in Music Education at
The National Association for Music Education National Conference.
References
External links
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Janet BarrettNAMM Oral History Interview (2010)
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Publications established in 1963