Jere T. Humphreys (born March 26, 1949,

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) is an American music scholar who applies historical, quantitative, philosophical, and sociological research methods to

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and arts business.

Education

Humphreys holds a

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in music education from the

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, an M.M. in

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performance from

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, and a

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in music education from the

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Teaching

Humphreys has been a professor in the

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at Arizona State University (ASU) since 1987. Previously, he taught at

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and

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(

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), and in the

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public schools Public school may refer to: *State school (known as a public school in many countries), a no-fee school, publicly funded and operated by the government *Public school (United Kingdom), certain elite fee-charging independent schools in England and ...

. He has had a career as a

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, and presenter in 31 countries on six continents and 40

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. He taught in the Georgia Governors Honors Program, was an academic specialist in Eastern Europe for the U.S. Information Agency (Department of State), and taught residential courses at Northern Illinois University, the

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, and the

. He held an endowed chair residency at the

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and completed residencies in universities outside the United States in Argentina, Bulgaria, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. He has been an instructor and dissertation advisor for the Native American Educational Leadership

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program in the ASU College of Education and for the D.M.A. program in music education at Boston University. Worldwide, he has been a dissertation and

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, committee member, and external reviewer for institutions in

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, Eastern and

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, and

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and

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. Altogether, he has advised 44 doctoral dissertations and two master's theses, including several university and national award winners. He has been nominated for ASU Professor of the Year, ASU Distinguished Mentor of Women, and ASU College of Fine Arts Distinguished Teacher of the Year awards.

Research

Humphreys has more than 175 publications and translations in nine languages (Arabic, Bulgarian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, English, Greek, Macedonian, Mandarin, Spanish, Turkish), including chapters and articles in books and journals, the ''

Grove Dictionary of American Music ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians. Along with the German-language '' Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'', it is one of the largest reference works on the history and the ...

'', and ''Sage Directions in Educational Psychology''—a republication of works by leading scholars in educational psychology and measurement (e.g., Bruner, Chronbach,

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, Nunnally,

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, Robert Thorndike). He has received three research awards from the

National Association for Music Education The National Association for Music Education (NAfME) is an organization of American music educators dedicated to advancing and preserving music education as part of the core curriculum of schools in the United States. Founded in 1907 as the Mus ...

: an MENC Citation of Excellence in Research (1985), a Distinguished Service Award "for exceptional contributions to scholarship" from the MENC History Special Research Interest Group (2010), and the MENC Senior Researcher Award for lifetime achievement (2006), the highest research award in the field of music education. Humphreys is a

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(Macedonia 2002) and Fulbright Senior Specialist (Egypt 2010, Turkey 2015) who has presented 18 keynote and other major speeches worldwide. As a member of the Senior Editorial Board and the contributing editor for music education for the second edition of the ''

'' (Oxford University Press), Humphreys commissioned and oversaw the writing/revising/editing of approximately 350 articles related to

and music therapy. He was also a section (part) editor and author for the ''Oxford Handbook of Music Education'' (2012 and 2018 editions). He has served as editor of the ''Journal of Historical Research in Music Education''Cox, Gordon. "Transforming Research in Music Education History." In ''MENC Handbook of Research Methodologies'', ed. Richard Colwell, 73–94. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. and on the editorial committees of 16 education, music education, and music therapy

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s. He has collaborated with the

Morrison Institute for Public Policy Morrison Institute for Public Policy''is an Arizona State University resource for objective policy analysis and expertise. Morrison Institute researches public policy issues, informs policy makers and residents, and advises leaders on choices and ...

and the U.S.

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(consultant); Greek Ministry of Education, European Union, and U.S.

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(member of research teams); and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the U.S. Fulbright Specialist Program, World Learning (reviewer).

Professional and Community Service

Humphreys has served as a university accreditation evaluator in

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and held leadership positions in the College Music Society (Advisory Committee for Music Education),

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Arizona Chapter (Board of Directors member and Co-President), Greek Society for Music Education (Scientific Advisor), International Society for Music Education (Financial Advisory Committee), MENC (Hall of Fame Board, Executive Committee for Society for Research in Music Education, Executive Committee for Society for Music Teacher Education, National Chair for History Special Research Interest Group, Chair for MENC Centennial History Symposium),

School of Music, Theatre & Dance Alumni Society (Board of Governors), and others. Outside of academia Humphreys served in the

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(rank: Specialist E-5). For eight years he sat on boards of directors for the

American Civil Liberties Union The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1920 "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States". T ...

of Arizona, where he served as vice-president for nominating and governance, vice-president for personnel, and chair of the Bylaws Committee. A Habitat for Humanity (HFH) volunteer since 1998, he has been a construction house/block leader (or co-leader) for 41 builds with HFH Central Arizona, Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter HFH Work Projects (including a rehabilitation project for Hurricane Katrina relief on the Mississippi Gulf Coast), and Blitz Home Builders. He has participated in dozens of other HFH projects, including a Global Village build in

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. Beginning in 2002, he worked with HFH International founding president (the late)

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to found HFH

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, an award-winning affiliate that to date has helped more than 6,000 families. In 2014, HFH Macedonia dedicated its first new building to Humphreys, six

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s in Veles, Macedonia. He continues as an honorary (fundraising) member of the Board of Directors. In 2018, he received a Spirit of Philanthropy Award from the Association of Fundraising Professionals—Greater Arizona Chapter.

Selected publications

Originally a keynote or other featured speech * Schiff, Jelena Dj. Simonović, and Jere T. Humphreys. “Claude V. Palisca as Music Educator: The Yale Seminar on Music Education and the Norton Anthology of Western Music.” ''Journal of Historical Research in Music Education''. In press. * *"World Music: Bringing Harmony to Our (Flawed) World" (a keynote speech presented at a world music symposium at Northern Illinois University in April 2015)
Video
an
audio
recordings available at Arizona State University Digital Repository. * *"Energizing the “Birge Story” of Public School Music in the United States: Some Ideas on How to Amp It Up.
''Journal of Historical Research in Music Education''
36, no. 2 (April 2015): 91-109. *
"Relationships between Popular Music and Democracy: Implications for Popular Music Pedagogy,"
with Abstract in the Mandarin
''Music Education Research International''
6 (2013): 1–14
Available at Arizona State University Digital Repository
Chinese (Mandarin) version (trans. Jui-Ching Wang): ''Journal of Aesthetic Education'' 198 (2014): 4–11 (Republic of China—Taiwan)
Available at Arizona State University Digital Repository
* *"Change in Music Education: The Paradigmatic and the Praxial." ''The Journal of the Desert Skies Symposium on Research in Music Education 2013 Proceedings'' (University of Arizona, 2013): 49–68
Available at Arizona State University Digital Repository
*"Observations about Occupational Identity among Public School Music Teachers: Past and Present." In ''Advances in Social-Psychology and Music Education Research'', SEMPRE Studies in the Psychology of Music Series, ed. Patrice Madura Ward-Steinman, 127–38. Surrey, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. Paperback edition: New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016. *"United States of America: Reflections on the Development and Effectiveness of Compulsory Music Education." In ''The Origins and Foundations of Music Education: Cross-Cultural Historical Studies in Compulsory Schooling'', eds. Gordon Cox and Robin Stevens, 121–36. Continuum Studies in Educational Research. London and New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010. Second nglishedition: ''The Origins and Foundations of Music Education: International Perspectives'', 139–53. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Chinese andarinlanguage (reprint) edition, Beijing, China: University of Peking Press, January 2016. *Stamou, Lelouda, Charles P. Schmidt, and Jere T. Humphreys. "Standardization of the Gordon Primary Measures of Music Audiation in Greece." '' Journal of Research in Music Education'' 58, no. 1 (April 2010): 75–89. *Androutsos, Polyvios, and Jere T. Humphreys. "Classroom Observation Ability among Pre-service Music Educators in Greece." ''

International Journal of Music Education ''International Journal of Music Education'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of music education. The editors-in-chief are Jane Southcott (Monash University), S. Alex Ruthmann (New York University). It was establi ...

'' 28, no. 1 (February 2010): 5–16. *Wang, Jui-Ching, and Jere T. Humphreys. "Multicultural and Popular Music Content in an American Music Teacher Education Program." ''

'' 27, no. 1 (February 2009): 19–36. * *"2006 Senior Researcher Award Acceptance Address: Observations about Music Education Research in MENC’s First and Second Centuries." '' Journal of Research in Music Education'' 54, no. 3 (Fall 2006): 183–202. * *"Toward a Reconstruction of ‘Creativity’ in Music Education." "Points for Debate" article
''British Journal of Music Education''
23, no. 3 (November 2006): 351–61. Mandarin version (trans. Jui-Ching Wang): ''Journal of Aesthetic Education'' 158 (2007): 4–13. (Republic of China—Taiwan)
Available at Arizona State University Digital Repository
*"Popular Music in the American Schools: What the Past Tells Us about the Present and the Future." In ''Bridging the Gap: Popular Music and Music Education'', ed. Carlos Xavier Rodriguez, 91–105. Reston, VA: MENC: The National Association for Music Education, 2004. * *"Some Notions, Stories, and Tales about Music and Education in Society: The Coin's Other Side.
''Journal of Historical Research in Music Education''
23, no. 2 (April 2002): 137–57. *"Musical Aptitude Testing: From

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Carl Emil Seashore Carl Emil Seashore, born Sjöstrand (January 28, 1866 – October 16, 1949) was a prominent American psychologist and educator. He was the author of numerous books and articles principally regarding the fields of speech–language pathology, music ...

." ''Research Studies in Music Education'' 10 (June 1998): 42–53. Reprint in: ''SAGE Directions in Educational Psychology'', ed. Neil J. Salkind, 1763–82, SAGE Library of Educational Thought and Practice, Vol. V, pp. 115–30 (Chap. 78), Section IV: "Research Design, Measurement and Statistics and Evaluation." London: SAGE Publications, 2010. Available through ebrary.com. *Humphreys, Jere T., and Charles P. Schmidt. "Membership of the Music Educators National Conference from 1912–1938: A Demographic and Economic Analysis." ''

Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education The ''Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education'' is a quarterly academic journal covering music education. It is published by the University of Illinois Press on behalf of the Council for Research in Music Education. History The ...

'' no. 137 (Summer 1998): 16–31. *"Sex and Geographic Representation in Two Music Education History Books." ''

'' no. 131 (Winter 1997): 67–86. * *"Expanding the Horizons of Music Education History and Sociology." ''Quarterly Journal of Music Teaching and Learning'' 7, nos. 2–4 (1996/97): 5–19
Available at ''Visions of Research in Music Education'' 16, no. 7 (October 2010)Available at Arizona State University Digital Repository
Spanish version, ''La Expansión de los Horizontes de la Historia Y Sociología de la Educacion Musical'' (trans. Ana Lucia Frega and Carolina Cecilia Abbamonte): ''CIEM (Centro de Investigación en Educación Musical): Boletín de Investigación Educativo-Musical del Collegium Musicum de Buenos Aires'' 11, no. 31 (Abril de 2004): 5–18
Available at Arizona State University Digital Repository
* Bužarovski, Dimitrije, Humphreys, Jere T. and Barry Wells. "College Students Attitudes Toward Music." ''PMEA Bulletin of Research in Music Education'' 21 (Fall 1995/1996): 20–42
Available at Arizona State University Digital Repository
*"Precursors of Musical Aptitude Testing: From the Greeks through the Work of

Francis Galton Sir Francis Galton, FRS FRAI (; 16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911), was an English Victorian era polymath: a statistician, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto- ...

." '' Journal of Research in Music Education'' 41, no. 4 (Winter 1993): 315–27
Available at Edwin E. Gordon Archive, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Reprint in: ''Music Education Research: An Anthology from the Journal of Research in Music Education'', ed. Harry E. Price, 158–70. Reston, VA: Music Educators National Conference, 1998. * *"Instrumental Music in American Education: In Service of Many Masters." In ''The Ithaca Conference on American Music Education: Centennial Profiles'', ed. Mark Fonder, 25–51. Ithaca, NY: Ithaca College, 1992
Available at Arizona State University Digital Repository
Reprint in: ''Journal of Band Research'' 30, no. 2 (Spring 1995): 39–70. Available through roQuestPeriodicals Archive Online. *"An Overview of American Public School Bands and Orchestras before World War II." ''

'' no. 101 (Summer 1989): 50–60. *"Applications of Science: The Age of Standardization and Efficiency in Music Education.
''Bulletin of Historical Research in Music Education''
9, no. 1 (January 1988): 1–21.
"The Child-Study Movement and Public School Music Education."
'' Journal of Research in Music Education'' 33, no. 2 (Summer 1985): 79–86.

References

External links

ASU Bio: Jere HumphreysSelected Works in Music and Music Education at ASU Digital Repository
{{DEFAULTSORT:Humphreys, Jere 1949 births Living people American music educators Arizona State University faculty People from Tempe, Arizona University of Mississippi alumni Florida State University alumni University of Michigan alumni West Virginia University faculty Huntingdon College faculty