This book is aimed at new graduates of music schools and conservatories who are emerging as professional-level performers and composers of classical music. It provides useful information for anyone trying to break into the music field. The order of the chapters corresponds to the general order of what is necessary to focus on when developing a…

Incidence of anxiety among musicians has been investigated mostly among classical players and music students. This paper determines that any intervention requires a comprehensive understanding of the primary problem. The presentation of music performance anxiety varies from individual to individual with many possible sources of origin as well as…

The concept of music teacher does not resemble that of teacher, classical musician, or pop musician. The music teacher is seen as neutral in regard to evaluation and potency-activity. (Author)

Describes a music program in which every child was given an opportunity to achieve a basic performing skill on an instrument of some kind. (GB)

Author considered dynamic contrasts of music and proposed a philosophy that student musicians can readily understand. (Author/RK)

Article explains the manner in which music can be made attractive to all people. (RK)

Music's most important function in African societies is to provide occasions for individual and organized group interactions. Modes of communication and interaction include sonic materials, the verbal texts to which sonic materials are set, and the dance through which basic structures in music are articulated. (AM)

Over the past ten years, the inferior social status of musicians in several Asian countries has improved. The social history and contemporary status of musicians and the impact of the mass media on the social role of music in Asian countries are described. (AM)

The author describes the itinerary and impressions of a group (Music Educators National Conference) of American composers, dancers, and other artists who made up the first cultural delegation from the United States to the People's Republic of China since the normalization of diplomatic relations between the two countries. (Author/KC)

The Kansas City Women's Jazz Festival was founded to provide exposure and a market for women in jazz. In its four years of operation it has grown in size and stature, stimulated creation of a scholarship fund, and spurred development of other festivals. (MSE)

Eleanor Smith (1858-1942), an outstanding composer of children's songs, was perhaps the most significant musician to embrace the philosophy of Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852), who founded the kindergarten in 1837 and consistently acknowledged and dignified children's natural capabilities and interests. Smith's songs still appear in published song…

Musical trade schools can provide a reliable means of training apprentice musicians while removing pressure from conservatories to turn their attention from artistic to commercial skills. (Author/RK)

Discusses the political meaning of the interviewee's music, his attitudes toward sex, dancing and partying, the status of reggae music in Jamaica, the response of white audiences to reggae music, the mass media image of reggae musicians, and the influence of Marcus Garvey upon the interviewee's music. (JM)