Chair: Katy Strand, Indiana University Chair-elect: Kate Fitzpatrick-Harnish, University of Michigan Past Chairs: 1992-1994, Kari Veblen 1994-96, Bryan Burton 1996-98, Stephen Paul 1998-2000, Molly Weaver 2002-2004, Brett Nolker 2004-2006, Ann Clements 2006-2008, Sheila Feay-Shaw 2008-2010, Sue Williamson

Hey folks, Get ready for our upcoming session in St. Louis! Social Sciences SRIG Session: Issues of Identity, Voice, and Power Relations in Music Education For decades, scientific researchers strove to examine fire as the product of chemical reactions. Finally, they surmised that fire cannot exist apart from the processes that create it. Similarly, musical […]

ACT Special Issue: Music Education in Urban Contexts  The latest issue of ACT is now available.  This special issue brings together a diverse, challenging and broad-ranging set of views on music education and its relations to multiple urban contexts. The following authors contributed to the issue: Ruben Gaztambide-Fernandez, Donna Emmanuel, Elizabeth Parker, Cathy Benedict, Sandra Stauffer, […]

Fire as a Process: The Sociology of 21st Century Music Education The 2nd MENC Biennial National Music Educators National Conference with special focus on Music Education Research and Music Teacher Education, will take place in St. Louis, Missouri, March 28-31, 2012 Social Science SRIG Session: Call for Proposals Session format: Two people will provide 20- […]

Social Sciences SRIG of MENC Sociological research in music education focuses upon structures and dynamics of society and their impact upon patterns of human behavior and individual life changes ~ We examine the ways in which the forms of social structure, including groups, organizations, communities, social categories (such as class, gender, sexuality, age, race, ethnicity, […]