Author: Committee on the Status of Minorities in the Profession

Publication Year: 1981

Media Type: Report

Summary:

T.J. Anderson, Chairman for many years of the CMS Committee on the Status of Minorities, supervised the preparation of this report with dedication and care. The CMS Report No. 3 includes Professor Anderson's overview of recent activities related to research on music of four major ethnic groups, several essays that explore curricular and research developments, a statistical report on the representation of ethnic minorities teaching at colleges and universities, and conclusions and challenges growing out of this report. On behalf of CMS and the music profession, I want to acknowledge the importance of this project and to thank our colleagues for their contributions: T. J. Anderson, Samuel A. Floyd, Robert Garfias, Norman C. Greenberg, Jamake Highwater, Georgia Ryder, Hiromi Lorraine Sakata, Eileen Southern, Barbara Tedlock and Wendell Whalum.

Abstract:

T.J. Anderson, Chairman for many years of the CMS Committee on the Status of Minorities, supervised the preparation of this report with dedication and care. The CMS Report No. 3 includes Professor Anderson's overview of recent activities related to research on music of four major ethnic groups, several essays that explore curricular and research developments, a statistical report on the representation of ethnic minorities teaching at colleges and universities, and conclusions and challenges growing out of this report. On behalf of CMS and the music profession, I want to acknowledge the importance of this project and to thank our colleagues for their contributions: T. J. Anderson, Samuel A. Floyd, Robert Garfias, Norman C. Greenberg, Jamake Highwater, Georgia Ryder, Hiromi Lorraine Sakata, Eileen Southern, Barbara Tedlock and Wendell Whalum. (p. vi)

CONTENTS
Foreword by Barbara English Maris.
Introduction by T. J. Anderson.
Individual chapters are analyzed.
Chapters are grouped as follows:
     Committee report on the status of minorities in the profession - ethnic minority
     reports.
     The questionnaire.

Arts & Intersections:

Categories: Arts Education