Music Research
Sondra Wieland Howe is an independent scholar in Minnesota. Her research interests include women and music, gender issues in music, Western music in Japan, and the history of music education. She has presented her research at conferences throughout the world and published articles in numerous journals. Selected publications are listed below. Author is Sondra Wieland Howe, unless indicated otherwise.
Further information, contact Dr. Howe at [email protected].
WOMEN AND MUSIC
Women Music Educators in the United States: A History. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2014.
"Town Bands, 1880-1920." Women's Bands in America: Performing Music and Gender, ed. Jill Sullivan. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
“A Historical View of Women in Music Education Careers,” Philosophy of Music Education Review 17, no. 2 (Fall 2009): 162-83.
Roberta Lamb, Lori-Anne Dolloff, and Sondra Wieland Howe. "Feminism, Feminist Research, and Gender Research in Music Education: A Selective Review." The New Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning, eds.
Richard Colwell and Carol Richardson. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2002, 648-674.
Women and Music in America Since 1900: An Encyclopedia, 2 vols. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002.
Entries on “Hood, Marguerite Vivian,” and “Pitts, Lilla Belle.”
Women Composers: Music Through the Ages. Eds. Sylvia Glickman and Martha Furman Schleifer. New York: G. K. Hall, 1998-2003. Entries on four women composers.
“Reconstructing the History of Music Education from a Feminist Perspective.” Philosophy of Music Education Review 6, no. 2 (Fall 1998): 96-106.
WESTERN MUSIC IN JAPAN
"Western Music in Meiji Era Japan," in Vanakyula bunka to gendai shakai [Vernacular Culture and Modern Society], ed. Keiko Wells (Kyoto, Japan: Shibunkaku Press, 2018), pp. 238-50.
Luther Whiting Mason: International Music Educator. Warren, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press, 1997.
Sondra Wieland Howe, Mei-Ling Lai, and Lin-Yu Liou. "Isawa Shuji, Nineteenth-century Administrator and Music Educator in Japan and Taiwan." Australian Journal of Music Education, no. 2 (2014): 93-105.
Sondra Wieland Howe, Mei-Ling Lai, and Lin-Yu Liou. “Isawa Shūji, Nineteenth-century Administrator and Music Educator in Japan and Taiwan.” Australian Journal of Music Education no. 2 (2014): 93-105.
“American Music in Meiji Era Japan.” Ritsumeikan Studies in Language and Culture, [Ritsumeikan Gengo Bunka Kenkyu], 26, no. 1 (October 2014): 63-70.
“A Comparison of Japanese Music Textbooks: Ongaku (1986) and Shōgakuse no ongaku (2005),” Research Note in Proceedings of the 23rd International Seminar on Research in Music Education. Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China, 2010.
“German and American Influences on the Development of the Kindergarten and Kindergarten Music in Meiji Era Japan.” Asia-Pacific Journal for Arts Education 3, no. 2 (November 2005): 83-106.
“Women Music Educators in Japan During the Meiji Period.” Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education 119 (Winter 1993-1994): 101-09.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Book reviews in the Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, Australian Journal of Music Education, Music Educators Journal, The Journal of Aesthetic Education, Psychology of Music, and Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association.
The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition, New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Six entries on music educators.
“Teaching Piano Students with Visual Handicaps.” Proceedings, 28th ISME World Conference: Music at All Ages. Wendy L. Sims, ed. International Society for Music Education, 2008.
"The NBC Music Appreciation Hour: Radio Broadcasts of Walter Damrosch, 1928-1942.” Journal of Research in Music Education 51, no. 1 (Spring 2003): 64-77.
The 2001-2002 Minnesota High School Music Listening Contest Study Guide. St. Paul: Minnesota Public Radio, 2001.
The 2000-2001 Minnesota High School Music Listening Contest Study Guide. St. Paul: Minnesota Public Radio, 2000.