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The Development of Marching Band Traditions at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: The Human Jukebox versus the Sonic Boom of the South

The college band experience at a Historically Black College or University (HBCU) football game is electrifying. With this research I wanted to know: how did all of this begin?

Editor's Picks, ResearchRachel WolfeFebruary 26, 2024black history month, college band, music education, HBCU

Struggling with good intentions: Music education research in a “post” world

Like many other disciplines — or at least those in the Westernized Global North with which I am familiar — my discipline of music education has been grappling of late with the question of what it means to ethically conduct research in the 21st century.

ResearchMaria Pia TissotOctober 4, 2022music education, research, music, ethical research

Autoethnographic reflections on composing (and being composed by) an academic career: Cultivating and navigating inner compasses within institutional terrains

Informed by intellectual pursuits, academic journeys are as experiential as they are conceptual, responsive to encounters with people and ideas that shape our thinking and being. While grounded within my specific circumstances and the domains of music, the arts, and qualitative research in the social sciences, the issues addressed in this article underlie academic trajectories across disciplinary and geographical cultures.