Teaching Music History Conference 2024: Conference Report and Resources
This year’s Teaching Music History Conference (THMC) took place June 7-9, 2024, at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia. THMC began as a Teaching Music History Day in…
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Teaching Squares: Sharing and Learning Across the College to Improve Music History Curriculum and Pedagogy
by Trudi Wright, PhD Dr. Becky Vartabedian and Dr. Trudi Wright celebrating at Regis College’s First-Year Experience Convocation on August 30, 2019 This post is dedicated to my teaching partner,…
New Year, New Editors, Same Jigsaw
by The Editors Greetings, Jigsaw readers, and Happy New Year! After several fruitful years at the helm of this blog, Jessica Getman and Brooke McCorkle have moved on…
Annotating Taruskin and How It Went
In memoriam by Anna Zayaruznaya To use, or not to use? That is the problem. We teachers know what textbooks are and what they aren’t; what they enable…
Picturing Music History: A Community-Based Public Musicology Class Project
A few years ago, based on increasing student interest, I was asked to create my college’s first course in Black American music history. I use a variety of media in my teaching, from primary sources to film to comics to picture books. It is this last format that provided the inspiration for my students’ capstone project in the Spring 2022 semester.
Active Learning Strategies for a (Post?) COVID-19 Era Music History Course
Many music history teachers quickly gained facility in the new teaching formats and modes during the pandemic, but change has not stopped. A “new normal,” which can involve face-to-face and hybrid class settings, as well as temporary periods with remote delivery, both invites and requires new and more flexible pedagogical approaches.
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