Pub Date : 2025-02-26DOI: 10.1177/00224294251317194
David S. Miller
The purpose of this study was to examine the demographic profile of doctoral music recipients by discipline from 1984 to 2022. Using sociological institutionalist and feminist institutionalist frameworks, I analyzed institution-level panel data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System ( N = 3,461) to examine the demographic characteristics of doctoral recipients in music education, music history/musicology, music theory/composition, and music performance. The number of doctoral completers in education, history/musicology, and theory/composition remained relatively stable over 4 decades. The number of doctoral completers in performance increased nearly fourfold, from 342 in 1984 to 1,253 in 2022. Compared to doctoral recipients across all academic disciplines, more music doctoral completers tended to be White. Music education and history/musicology recipients mirrored broader trends toward higher proportions of female doctoral recipients, but performance and theory/composition remained disproportionately male. Additionally, no music doctorates were ever awarded at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) despite the proportion of doctoral recipients at HBCUs in other disciplines increasing over the observed period. Results are discussed in the context of the formal and informal institutions that contribute to the homogenization of various music student and teacher populations across race/ethnicity and gender.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-24DOI: 10.1177/00224294251317170
Sangmi Kang
The purpose of this phenomenological inquiry was to examine musicians’—who already have extensive training in a familiar musical style—intensive, hands-on, performance-based learning experience of different musical traditions based on the theoretical frameworks of bi-musicality and interactive constructivism. Through chain sampling, I conducted interviews with eight musicians from multiple countries. Participants had a shared experience of the phenomenon shaped by their roles, including an undergraduate music student, a music education doctoral student, a private music teacher, a retired music teacher, a higher education professor, a music therapist, a children’s community choir director, and a music producer. Following epoché, bracketing, horizontalization, and phenomenological reduction, three themes emerged: (a) adapting skills and knowledge from previous learning, (b) setting aside techniques that express cultural differences, and (c) exploring novelty intuitively through experimentation with cultural integrity. The three themes encapsulated the essence of musicians’ experiences across musical traditions as adaptations, code-switching, and novelty with cultural integrity. The findings of this study may suggest implications for how music teachers and students broaden their music experiences beyond their familiar style to encompass diverse musical traditions in their formal and informal music learning settings.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-22DOI: 10.1177/00224294251319502
Bradley J. Regier, Melissa Baughman, Alec D. Scherer, Brian A. Silvey
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether undergraduate music students’ conducting anxiety associated with their self-reported levels of depression, self-compassion, self-efficacy for conducting, concern with others’ perceptions, and conducting beliefs and behaviors. Participants who were enrolled in an introductory conducting course ( N = 128) completed a questionnaire that included adopted and modified items from preexisting measures, researcher-designed items, and open-ended questions to provide insights related to their conducting anxiety. Participants’ level of concern with others’ perceptions significantly predicted their conducting anxiety scores, and open-response results supported this finding. The perceived difficulty level of the pieces/excerpts assigned by their conducting instructor also predicted participants’ conducting anxiety. Results of a Pearson correlation analysis indicated that participants’ conducting anxiety scores correlated with their depression scores positively but inversely with their self-compassion and self-efficacy for conducting scores. Conducting instructors should find ways to make their course environment welcoming, transparent, and growth-based so that students can focus on improving their conducting skills.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-22DOI: 10.1177/00224294251318048
Marjoris Regus
This collective instrumental case study explores the experiences of Spanish-English bilingual AfroLatina/o/é collegiate students in U.S. undergraduate music education degree programs. The theoretical frameworks of Black critical theory (BlackCrit) and Latino critical theory (LatCrit) frame this study to interpret the experiences of AfroLatina/o/é students. Data collection included nine semistructured individual interviews, two focus group interviews, in-person observations, participant self-written narratives, and one collaborative music playlist. Analysis of data led to identification of two cross-case themes: navigating and performing identity and codeswitching domains in academic and social spaces. This study suggests that marginalization due to AfroLatinidad systematically derives from the constant negotiation of race, ethnicity, and language experienced by these participants in the music academy and in their lives. Recommendations to better support AfroLatiné music education students include support and promotion of student affinity groups, mentorship with community members who share similar musical and teaching interests, increased representation of racial and ethnic diversity in ensemble repertoire selection, and allocation of academic scholarships to students pursuing non-Western classical musical pathways, such as merengue and reggaetón.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-23DOI: 10.1177/00224294251313597
Peter Miksza
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Pub Date : 2025-01-10DOI: 10.1177/00224294241308231
Saleel Adarkar Menon, Anne Martin, Andrew Bohn
The Journal of Research in Music Education ( JRME) is an important resource in music education with a history of eminence in publication, citation, and influence on research trends and practices. Recent qualitative research appearing in the JRME has demonstrated a nuanced focus on the relevance of race and gender and marginalized perspectives within music education. This led us to question whether quantitative research in the JRME reflects similar attention to and progressive treatment of race and gender. Therefore, the purpose of this critical content analysis was to analyze the use of race and gender as demographic and analytical variables in quantitative research published between 2003 and 2022 in the JRME. Findings suggest that researchers do not account for race and gender in the majority of quantitative research, and when they do, their treatments lack nuance. We situate the discussion of our findings using quantitative critical race theory (QuantCrit) as a theoretical framework and offer suggestions for more ethical research practices for quantitative researchers to consider.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-04DOI: 10.1177/00224294241308354
Christopher M. Johnson
{"title":"2024 Senior Researcher Award Acceptance Address: Perspectives that the Passage of Time Allows","authors":"Christopher M. Johnson","doi":"10.1177/00224294241308354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00224294241308354","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47469,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Music Education","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142924498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-03DOI: 10.1177/00224294241308353
Wendy L. Sims
{"title":"Introduction to the 2024 Senior Researcher Award Acceptance Address","authors":"Wendy L. Sims","doi":"10.1177/00224294241308353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00224294241308353","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47469,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Music Education","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142924500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-12-24DOI: 10.1177/00224294241303872
Carina Borgström Källén, Monica Lindgren
In this article, we explore identity construction in specialist music teacher education. In this longitudinal study, we followed 11 preservice music teachers through their education for five years, 2016 to 2021, in a music teacher training program directed toward upper secondary schools in Sweden. For decades, music education researchers have identified tension between the music teacher and musician identities. This tension is today challenged by critical thinking concerning the rapid societal and cultural changes of late modern society and by the need to take social responsibility for music education in a broader context. The data for this report comprise 11 journal entries (designated “personal reflections” and written by each participant in their first year) and five focus group interviews, produced in three steps over five years. Throughout the data production, “past,” “present,” and “future” served as keywords. Content analysis focused on identity constructions was conducted using the concepts of social positioning and music identity. The findings show how the students gradually shifted their social positioning from being cultural bearers in local society to being music specialists, aiming to teach skilled and motivated young people. However, this gradual change was not linear but was multilayered, complex, and contradictory.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-24DOI: 10.1177/00224294241303840
Lauren Kapalka Richerme
All music education endeavors depend on the hierarchical ordering of values. Although philosophical researchers have considered which values should inform music education practices, both the nature of values and possible epistemologies or ways of thinking about values have gone largely unexamined in the music education literature. The twofold purpose of this philosophical inquiry is to examine differences between political versus academic epistemologies and to consider the benefits and limitations of utilizing these contrasting ways of knowing during preservice music teacher preparation. Political epistemologies involve promoting narrow values, encouraging emotional attachments to them, and treating them as unquestionable. Although political epistemologies enable professional cohesion that can sustain and improve practice, they limit both complexity and critiques of actions associated with favored values. Political epistemologies can also reinforce echo chambers, causing students who anticipate counterarguments to harden their initial stances. Alternatively, academic epistemologies involve sustained, rigorous, dispassionate analysis of the complexities surrounding competing values and their associated consequences. Academic epistemologies enable music educators to reimagine their actions and engage with stakeholders promoting contrasting values. Both political and academic epistemologies can serve a key role in preservice music teacher education, and teacher educators might question when and why they favor each in their practices.
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