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AMS TMH Day 2009 Program Schedule

The American Musicological Society's 

Pedagogy Study Group,

AMS Midwest Chapter, AMS Allegheny Chapter, 

and Edinboro University present the

AMS Teaching Music History Day 2009

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Alexander Music Center

Edinboro University of Pennsylvania

8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

It's FREE and open to the public.

No Registration is required.

Lunch and Snacks will be provided.

8:30 - 9:00 a.m.  Coffee and conversation

9:00 - 9:15 a.m.  Welcome

9:15 – 11:00 a.m. Panel Discussion: Redesigning the Music History Survey (each person will deliver a 15 minute position paper, followed by a question-answer period initiated by the panelists (talking to one another) and expanding to the audience.

“Reconceptualizing Music History: Some Thoughts on Categories Versus Chronology in Music History Survey Courses” – Michael J. Malone, Ohio Wesleyan University

“Time for Reevaluation: Content v. Process in Teaching Music History in Tumultuous Times” – Dane Heuchemer, Kenyon College

“The ‘Teaching Self’ as a Central Concept in Music History Pedagogy” – Dina Lentsner, Capital University Conservatory of Music

“Broadening the Music History Curriculum: Suggestions for Success” – Ann van der Merwe, Miami University of Ohio

11:15-12:15 Paper Session 2: Teaching Critical Thinking in Music History

"'If You Can't Beat 'em, Join 'em:  Editing Wikipedia as a Research Project" – Joshua Veltman, Union University

“Literacy vs. Critical Thinking in the Music History Survey” – Benjamin Binder, Duquesne University

12:15 - 1:15 p.m. Lunch

1:15 – 2:00 p.m.  Performance: Mandeleo – Traditional Children's Song & Dance of Burundi

2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Keynote Lecture and Demonstration:

"Wiki, Clickie, Nice and Schticky: (re)Writing Music History in the Survey for Majors." – Andrew Dell’Antonio, with Domenica Bongiovanni and Joshua Ogden-Davis, The University of Texas at Austin

3:15 – 5:15 p.m.  Workshop Sessions

“The Lessons of Applied Ethnomusicology Pedagogy for Teaching Music History” – Eric Hung, Westminster College of the Arts

“Active Learning in the Music History Classroom” –  Molly Cryderman-Weber, Lansing Community College

“Writer’s Workshop with Music Appreciation Learners” – Carolyn Ponce, Adjunct Music Faculty, Arkansas State University

“Hearing ‘the Classical’ in the ‘Popular:’ Film Music and the Classical Tradition” – Brian Mann, Vassar College

5:15 p.m.   Wrap-up and conclusions