An American perspective

Abstract

Journal of Historical Research in Music Education 33.1 (October 2011), pp.89-92. Marie McCarthy is Professor of Music Education at the University of Michigan, where she teaches courses on general music, research design, and music cultures in the classroom. Her research studies address the historical, social, and cultural foundations of music education, the transmission of music in cultural context, and spiritual dimensions of music education. Her publications include two books, Passing It On: The Transmission of Music in Irish Culture (Cork: Cork University Press, 2009), and Toward a Global Community: A History of the International Society for Music Education, 1953-2003 (ISME, 2003). Bernarr Rainbow on Music: Memoirs and Selected Writings. Ed. Peter Dickinson. Introductions by Gordon Cox and Charles Plummeridge. Woodbridge, UK; Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2010. xiii + 398 pp. Index, hardback. ISBN 978-1-84383-592-9, $45.00. Bernarr rainbow (1914-98) was a leading historian of music education in the twentieth century. As Allen P. Britton (1914-2003) established the field of music education history in the United States, Rainbow spent much of his career following a similar path in Britain during the same time period. His enormous output of authored and edited books and other writings is celebrated in Bernarr Rainbow on Music: Memoirs and Selected Writings. This is the third book devoted to Rainbow's writings published by Boydell Press under the aegis of the Bernarr Rainbow Trust and the editorship of Peter Dickinson.