SELECTED
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
The Ohio Music Educators Association, Cincinnati, Ohio, January 28-31, 2010.
“Research and New Frontiers: Claiming a Scholarly Life”
Nordic Network for Music Education: Social Justice and Inclusion in Music Education, Hamar, Norway, November 9-13, 2009.
“Experience, Social Justice, and Musical Citizenship”
MENC’s Music Education Week in Washington, Arlington, Virginia, June 17-23, 2009
“Contemporary Popular Music in the Classroom”
Sixth International Research in Music Education Conference, Exeter, England, April 15-18, 2009
“Methods and situational ethics in music education,” with Heidi Westerlund
MENC Biennial, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 10-13,
2008
"Realities of music teaching: A conversation"
AERA: Beyond Lucy Green: Operationalizing Theories of Informal
Music Learning, New York, New York, March 24-30, 2008.
"Creating an educational framework for popular music in public
schools: Anticipating the second wave"
Tanglewood II Symposium, Williamstown, Massachusetts,
June 17-23, 2007.
Pre-Symposium Conference Report: "Music as a person-centered
process"
Toward Tanglewood II: "Underlying Tensions: The Systematic
Barriers to Excellence in Teacher Education," UCLA,
& The Grammy Foundation, Los Angeles, May 14, 2007.
"The problems of music teacher education"
Philosophy and Music Education Symposium VII, London, Ontario,
June 6-9, 2007.
Response: "The art of the game: Music education and social
justice" by Julian Humphreys.
Fifth International Research in Music Education Conference,
Exeter, England, April 10-14, 2006.
“Teaching for social justice”
MayDay Colloquium XVII, Princeton, NJ, June 22-25,
2006.
“If you don’t ask, you can’t tell: Uncovered
meanings in the North American drum and bugle corps”
MENC Biennial: Philosophy, Music Education, and World
Engagement, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 19-23, 2006.
“Extraordinary rendition: On politics, music, and circular
meanings”
MENC Biennial: Music: A Creative Force
at the Center of Urban Education, Salt Lake City, Utah,
April 19-23, 2006.
“Social justice in music education”
Ways of Doing: “Politics as Research,” The
Spencer Foundation Research Training Program,
Teachers College, New York, NY, November 7, 2005
“Politics as research: Research on the hither side of fact”
Philosophy and Music Education Symposium VI,
Hamburg, Germany, May 18-21, 2005
“Species counterpoint: Darwin and the evolution of forms”
Fourth International Research in Music Education Conference,
Exeter, England, April 5-9, 2005.
“Global music exchange and cultural diplomacy”
College Band Directors National Conference, New
York, NY, February 25, 2005.
“Wind band teaching at the edge”
New Jersey Music in Urban Schools Project, Wayne,
NJ, February 24, 2005.
“Introducing creativity in beginning band literature”
Sound Ways of Learning V ! – Arts, Literacy, and
Learning through Music. Wayne, NJ, January 12, 2005.
“Musical heritage: Celebrating families through music”
MENC Biennial: Philosophy: Exploring the Potentials in
the School Curriculum, Minneapolis, MN, April 14-17,
2004
“Hard times: Philosophy, and fundamentalism”
Cultural Diplomacy in Arts Education, New York,
NY, March 27-28 & April 3-4, 2004
“Hip-hop New York and Sweden – School students interact
live with their compositions”
Philosophy and Music Education Symposium V, Lake
Forest, IL, June 4-7, 2003
“The fifth element (or turning the dialectic on its head):
A response to Estelle Jorgensen’s
‘Four philosophical models of relationship between theory
and practice’”
Third International Research in Music Education Conference,
Exeter, England, April 8 -12, 2003
"Imagining possibilities in a global world: Music, learning,
and rapid change.”
2002 Hartwick College Faculty Lecture, Oneonta,
NY, December 6, 2002
“Praxis and the possible: Thoughts on the writings of Maxine
Greene and Paulo Freire.”
Second International Research in Music Education Conference,
Exeter, England, April 3-7, 2001
"Transformational education and critical music pedagogy:
Examining the link between culture and learning."
Philosophy and Music Education Symposium IV,
Birmingham, England, June 7-10, 2000
“Music education as liberatory practice: Exploring the ideas
of Milan Kundera”
Philosophy and Music Education Symposium III,
Los Angeles, CA, May 28-31, 1997
“Activating self-transformation through improvisation in
music education”
Feminist Theory and Music 4, Charlottesville,
VA, June 5-8 1997
“Cultural conflict in the music classroom: Exploring the
ideas of Lisa Delpit”
