Wayne Bowman Publications

2007

“The Body in a State of Music.” Co-authored with Kimberly Powell. International Handbook of Research in Arts Education, Liora Bresler, ed. Volume 2 (Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer) 1087-1106. The Body in a State of Music.

2006

“The Future of University Music Study in Canada”. Guest editor: special issue of Ecclectica, Brandon University’s on line journal. The issue includes contributions from twenty distinguished Canadian music academics. http://www.ecclectica.ca/issues/2006/2/

“Music, Beauty, and Privileged Pleasures: Situating Fine Art and ‘ Aesthetic’ Experience.” Action, Theory, and Criticism (ACT) for Music Education 5:1 (January, 2006). Also, editorial responsibility for six essays on Gender and Aesthetics: An Introduction, by Carolyn Korsmeyer (Routledge, 2004). Bowman5_1.pdf.

“Musical Experience as Aesthetic: What Cost the Label?” Contemporary Aesthetics 4(4). What Cost 0the Aesthetic Label.

“Re-Thinking Music Education: The Place of Educational Studies in the 21st Century Music School.” Spring 2006 Newsletter, College Music Society, Northeastern Chapter. From my keynote address, delivered to the organization in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, March 2006. Rethinking Music Education.

“Why Narrative? Why Now?.” Research Studies in Music Education, 27:1 (December 2006) 5-20. (Keynote Address: Narrative Soundings [International Conference on Narrative Research in Music Education] Arizona State University, April 2006). Why Narrative NIME Keynote.

2005

“After the Silence of Aesthetic Enchantment: Race, Music, and Music Education.” Action, Theory, and Criticism (ACT) for Music Education 4:3 (September, 2005). After the Enchantment, Also, editorial responsibility for issue 4:3, five essay reviews of Music and the Racial Imagination, by Ronald Radano and Philip Bohlman, eds. (University of Chicago Press, 2000). Bowman4_3.pdf.

“The Limits and Grounds of Musical Praxialism.” In Praxial Music Education: Reflections and Dialogues. D. Elliott, ed. (Oxford University Press, 2005) pp. 52-78. Praxialism (Limits and Grounds).

“More Inquiring Minds, More Cogent Questions, More Provisional Answers: The Need to Theorize Music Education – and its Research.” Music Education Research, Vol.7, no.2 (July 2005) pp.153-168. More Inquiring Minds.

“Music Education in Nihilistic Times.” Educational Philosophy and Theory (Journal of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia), Special Issue: The Philosophy of Music Education: Contemporary Perspectives, 37:1 (February 2005) pp. 29-46. Republished in Music Education for the New Millennium: Theory and Practice Futures for Music Teaching and Learning, David Lines, ed. Blackwell Press monograph, December 2005. Music Education in Era of Nihilism.

“The Rationality of Action: Pragmatism’s Habit Concept.” Action, Theory, and Criticism (ACT) for Music Education 4:1 (March 2005). Also, editorial responsibility for issue 4:1, three essay reviews of The Enormous Fly-Wheel of Society, by Erkki Kilpinen (University of Helsinki, 2000). BowmanEditorial4_1.pdf.

“To What Question(s) is Music Advocacy the Answer?” International Journal of Music Education23:2 (August 2005) 125-29. Advocacy (To What Question).

“Why Musical Performance? Views Praxial to Performative.” In Praxial Music Education: Reflections and Dialogues. D. Elliott, ed. (Oxford University Press, 2005) pp. 142-64. Why Musical Performance.

2004

“Cognition and the Body: Perspectives from Music Education,” in Knowing Bodies, Moving Minds: Toward Embodied Teaching and Learning, Liora Bresler ed. (Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Press, 2004) pp. 29-50. Music Cognition.

“’Pop’ Goes. . .? Taking Popular Music Seriously,” in Bridging the Gap: Popular Music and Music Education. Carlos Rodriguez ed. (Reston, VA: Music Educators National Conference, 2004) pp. 29-50.

“The Song is You: Symposium on Music and Identity.” Action, Criticism and Theory (ACT) for Music Education 3:1 (May 2004). Also editorial responsibility for issue 3:1, four essay reviews of Musical Identities, by R. MacDonald, D. Hargreaves, and D. Miell (Oxford University Press, 2002) Bowman3_1.pdf.

2003

“Bennett Reimer’s Philosophy of Music Education.” Action Criticism and Theory (ACT) for Music Education 2:1 (September 2003). Also, editorial responsibility for issue 2:1 four essay reviews of Reimer’s A Philosophy of Music Education: Advancing the Vision (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall 2003) Bowman2_1.pdf.

“Music as Ethical Encounter?” The Charles Leonhard Lecture. Invited presentation, University of Illinois, April, 2000. Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education , No. 151 (Winter, 2001[sic]), pp. 11-20. Music as Ethical Encounter.

“Re-Tooling ‘Foundations’ to Address 21st Century Realities: Music Education Amidst Diversity, Plurality, and Change (The Dream of Certainty is a Retreat from Educational Responsibility).” Action, Criticism, and Theory (ACT) for Change in Music Education (2:2), online journal of the Mayday Group. Bowman2_2.pdf.

2002

“Educating Musically.” The New Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning:A Project of the Music Educators National Conference, Richard Colwell and Carol Richardson, eds (Oxford University Press, 2002) 63-84. Educating Musically.

“Music’s Significance in Everyday Life.” Action, Criticism and Theory (ACT) for Music Education. 1:2 (December 2002). Also, editorial responsibility for issue 1:2, three essay reviews of Music in Everyday Life, by Tia DeNora. Bowman1_2.pdf.

“Why Do Humans Value Music?” Philosophy of Music Education Review Volume 10, no. 1 (Spring 2002) 55-63. Why do People Value Music? (Originally presented to Music Educators’ National Conference (Washington, D.C., March, 2000)

2001

“Music Education and Postsecondary Music Studies in Canada.” Music Studies in the New Millennium: Perspectives From Canada, special edition of Canadian University Music Review 21:1 (2001) 76-90. Reprinted in Arts Education Policy Review 103:2 (November/December 2000) 9-17. Canadian Postsecondary.

2000

“‘Deja vu all over again’? A Critical Response to Claire Detels’ Helsinki Discussion Paper.” Presented to the Mayday Group and AWE pragmatist group in Helsinki, Finland, June 2000. Finnish Journal of Music Education 5:1-2 (2000) 41-58. Reprinted in Action, Criticism, Theory (ACT) for Music Education, 1:1 (April 2002). Bowman1_1b.pdf.

“Discernment, Respons/ability, and the Goods of Philosophical Praxis.” Presented to the Mayday Group and AWE pragmatist group in Helsinki, Finland, June 2000. Finnish Journal of Music Education 5:1-2 (2000) 96-119. Also published in German translation as “Die Praxis der Theorie,” in the German on-line journal Zeitschrift für Kritische Musikpädagogik: Ver-Antwortlichkeit und der Wert philosophischer Praxis (http://home.arcor.de/zf/zfkm/inhalt.html). Reprinted in Action, Criticism, Theory (ACT) for Music Education, 1:1 (April 2002) Bowman1_1a.pdf.

“A Somatic, ‘Here-And-Now’ Semantic: Music, Body, and Self.” Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education , No. 144 (Spring 2000), pp. 45-60. A Somatic Semantic.

“Thoughts on Shaping Talent and Identity,” in collaboration with L. Bartel, J. Bellous, and K. Peglar. Orbit, 31(1) 2000 on-line edition (OISE, University of Toronto): [http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/orbit/vol31no1/tosti/index.html]. Talent & Identity.

“What Should the Music Education Profession Expect of Philosophy?” Arts and Learning Research Journal 16:1 (1999-2000) 54-75. Expectations of Philosophy (What should we expect).

1999

Review of Music in the Moment (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997) by Jerrold Levinson. Philosophy of Music Education Review. Volume 7, no.1 (Spring 1999), pp. 65-69.

Review of Music and Cultural Theory (Polity Press, 1997), by John Shepherd and Peter Wicke. Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, No. 140 (Spring, 1999) pp. 77-81.

Review of Musical Worlds: New Directions in the Philosophy of Music (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998), Philip Alperson, editor. Journal of Aesthetic Education. Volume 33, Number 2 (Summer, 1999), pp. 113-115.

1998

Philosophical Perspectives on Music (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998). A book exploring divergent philosophical perspectives on the nature and value of music.Various chapters explore music as imitation, as idea, as form, as symbol, as lived (phenomenological) experience, as social text, and from the critical perspectives of feminism and postmodernism.

“Universals, Relativism, and Music Education.” Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, No. 135 (Winter, 1998), pp. 1-20.Music Education without Universals.

1996

“Music Without Universals: Relativism Reconsidered.” In Lee R. Bartel and David J. Elliott (eds.) Critical Reflections on Music Education: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on the Philosophy of Music Education (Toronto: Canadian Music Research Centre, 1996).

1994

“Sound, Sociality, and Music,” (Parts I & II). The Quarterly Journal of Music Teaching and Learning. Volume V, Number 3, (Fall, 1994), pp. 50-67. Sound, Sociality, Music.

Review of The Creation of Jazz, by B. W. Peretti (University of Illinois Press, 1992). Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, No. 121 (Summer, 1994), pp. 101-103.

“Sound, Society, and Music ‘Proper’.” Philosophy of Music Education Review. Volume 2, no. 1, Spring 1994, pp. 14-24.

“Justifying Music Education: Contingency and Solidarity.” Canadian Music Educator, Volume 35, no. 6, Summer 1994, pp. 27-32.

Review of The Rationality of Feeling, by David Best (Falmer Press, 1992). Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, March, 1994, pp. 1001-1002.

1993

Review of “Bill Evans: His Contributions as a Jazz Pianist and an Analysis of his Music Style,” Ph.D. dissertation by Paula Berardinelli. Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, No. 118 (Fall, 1993). pp. 45-47.

Review of “Intelligence and Feeling: A Philosophical Examination of These Concepts as Interdependent Factors in Music Experience and Music Education,” Ph.D. dissertation by W. Ann Stokes. Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education. No. 116, Spring 1993, pp. 84-87.

“Music Education Evaluation: Friend, Foe or Passing Fancy?” Manitoba Music Educator. Vol. 3, Spring 1993, pp. 7-9.

“The Problem of Aesthetics and Multiculturalism in Music Education.” Canadian Music Educator, Volume 34, no. 5, May 1993, pp. 23-31.

“The Values of Musical Formalism.” In E. R. Jorgensen (ed.) Philosopher, Musician, Teacher: Perspectives on Music Education. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993, pp. 41-60.

1992

“Philosophy, Criticism, and Music Education: Some Tentative Steps Down a Less-Travelled Road.” Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education. No. 114, Fall 1992, pp. 1-19.

Review of “Music Education in Culture: A Critical Analysis of Reproduction, Production and Hegemony,” Ph.D. dissertation by Andrea Margaret Rose. Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education. No. 113, Summer 1992, pp. 71-79.

1991

“A Plea for Pluralism: Variations on a Theme by George McKay,” in Basic Concepts in Music Education, II, Richard Colwell (ed.). The University Press of Colorado, 1991, pp. 94-110.

“The Values of Musical Formalism.” Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol. 25, No. 3, Fall 1991, pp. 41-60.

“An Essay Review of Bennett Reimer’s A Philosophy of Music Education.” The Quarterly Journal of Music Teaching and Learning. Vol. II, No. 3, Fall 1991, pp. 76-87.

1990

Review of Music, Mind, and Education, by Keith Swanwick. Philosophy of Music Education Newsletter, Vol. III, No. 1, November 1990, pp. 5-11.

“Faculty, Student, and Alumni perceptions of the Brandon University School of Music.” Report on a survey developed and administered as part of a review of the School of Music.

Review of “The Relationship of French-Immersion Education to the Tonal Skills of First- and Fourth-Grade Canadian Children,” DMA dissertation by James DeFrece. Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education. Vol. 105, Summer 1990, pp. 80-87.

“Can We Talk?” The Manitoba Music Educator, Vol. 30, No. 1, March 1990, pp. 5-11.

1988

Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education. Invited Guest Editor for two issues of the Bulletin devoted to research in jazz and jazz education: Vol. 95 (Winter, 1987) and Vol. 96 (Spring, 1988).

“Doctoral Research in Jazz Improvisation Pedagogy: An Overview.” Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education. Vol. 96, Spring 1988, pp. 47-76.

1987

“In Defense of Informed Professional Judgment.” Manitoba Music Educator. March, 1987, pp. 7-11.

Review of “A New Statement for Values for Music Education, Based on the Writings of Dewey, Meyer, and Wolterstorff,” Ph.D. dissertation by A. Schantz, University of Colorado. Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education. Vol. 93, Summer 1987, pp. 49-65.

1986

“The University’s Responsibility for Music Teacher Education Reform.” Canadian Music Educators’ Journal. Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 28-42.

1985

Final Report of the Manitoba Art and Music Assessment Program. Manitoba Department of Education. Chapter II: “Music Results,” pp. 7-41.

“Open Letter to the Membership of MMEA.” Manitoba Music Educator. June, 1985, pp. 43-44. (Reprinted 1989).

1984

“Reflections on the Methodology Controversy.” Canadian Music Educators’ Journal. Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 9-14.

“Reflections on the Methodology Controversy.” New York State School Music News. (April, 1984).

“Jazz Band: Musical Aberration or Legitimate Musical Education?” Jazz Educators’ Journal. Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 12-15, 85.

1982

“Polanyi and Instructional Method in Music.” Journal of Aesthetic Education. Vol. 16, pp. 75-86.

“Canadian Music Educators’ Association in the ’80′s: Monologue or Dialogue?” Canadian Music Educators’ Journal. Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 9-16.

“Jazz in our Schools: the Opportunity and the Challenge,” Jazz Educators’ Journal. Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 14-16.