Author: Uszler, Marienne

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Media Type: Periodical (article)

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Abstract:

The music community is currently experiencing a stimulated awareness of itself as a community. Individual members - composers, instrumentalists, educators, singers and conductors for example - are concentrating less on self-reflective, self-protective issues and more on the need to acknowledge and protect objectives shared by the music community as a whole. College faculty members and administrators are beginning to become more aware of the inter-dependency of all levels of music education, from preschool through university. Vocal and instrumental teachers are re-examining how performance majors are being prepared to make a living in, and an impact on, a society and culture that, to a large extent, is musically illiterate. Because many graduates with performance degrees teach at least part time in home studios, attention is being redirected to independent music teachers, a group regarded benevolently yet often patronizingly. This renewed interest in independent music teachers has also revealed complications connected to thinking of them as a unified group.

CONTENTS
The microcosm.
Sources of information.
What's in a name?
The Music Teachers National Association [MTNA] independent music teacher survey.
Issues within the ranks.
Zoning.
Teaching outside the home.
Independent music teaching as a full-time career.
Who is a professional?
Changing how the independent music teacher is educated.
The challenge to the college.
Life is what we make it.
Notes [include bibliographic references].

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