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Category: General Commentary

This section includes comments that take positions on general topics from the MayDay Group agenda.

May 30, 2014May 30, 2014General Commentary

Correcting MayDay Group History

Thomas Regelski’s response to a book chapter by Roberta Lamb (click here after clicking on post title): “Ethnomusicology, Feminism, Music Education: Telling Untold Tales” […]

October 10, 2013October 10, 2013General Commentary

Multiple intelligences, national music standards and professional beliefs

I’ve been examining how Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences theory has been applied in education. In the course of looking for answers I was […]

October 10, 2013October 10, 2013General Commentary

A Pragmatist’s Notion of Work of Art: A foundation for the AWE-Group (Artist, Work-of-Art, Experience)

Abstract. A work of art may be understood as a physical object perceived from a specific, i.e., aesthetic viewpoint. Pragmatist philosophers have, […]

March 10, 2000October 10, 2013General Commentary

Why Do Humans Value Music?

[This brief talk was delivered on March 10, 2000 at the (USA) Music Educators National Conference in Washington D.C. as part of […]

July 17, 1998October 10, 2013General Commentary

International Theorizing in Music Education: The MayDay Group and Its Agenda

Presented at the International Society for Music Education Pretoria, South Africa, July 17-25, 1998 [based on the author’s opening address: Charles Fowler […]

May 28, 1997October 10, 2013General Commentary

Five questions for Edwin Gordon and Bennett Reimer

[During the Philosophy of Music Education Symposium III [PME III] in Los Angeles [May 28-31, 1997] a “dialog” was held between Edwin […]

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