Music Education in America's Public Normal Schools
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- ISBN 9781666921717
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 19 Feb 2026
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book provides a history of music education (1839–1960), capturing the beginning of music participation and engagement in many of the public universities that started as normal schools.
The normal schools of the 19th and 20th centuries each had their own identity, curricular policies, networks of stakeholders, music education coursework, and collaborative-performing opportunities. The contributing authors argue that arts education, specifically music, was part of the curriculum in the first public normal schools in America, which provided rich democratic arts experiences to its teacher-education students. Their embodied music experiences would live on to impact music teaching and learning curriculum not only in the k-12 schools where they taught, but nearly two centuries of music education in the colleges and universities from which they stem.
Danelle D. Larson is Professor of Music Education and Music Education Division Director at Eastern Illinois University, USA.
Jill M. Sullivan is a professor in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, School of Music, Dance, and Theatre, at Arizona State University, Tempe, USA.
