Paper investigating current and potential uses for the State of Texas Emergency Assistance Registry (STEAR) data to better assist people with disabilities. STEAR is a state-run database designed to assist emergency managers working for city and county governments to prepare for the needs of citizens with disabilities or transportation needs. Disability or special needs registries similar to STEAR have been widely promoted within emergency management as an improvement for inclusive planning and response. However, little research on the use or effectiveness of these registries exists.

A receipt from the Galveton Tri-Weekly News to Fred A. Rice confirming payment for a subscription.

Paper on the factors that affected of alternative popular music in Recife, Brazil. The contrasts between the discourses of bands, producers, and patrons reflect larger tensions in the Recife alternative music scene, which in turn point towards ruptures in the relationship between mainstream and alternative cultural production in Brazil.

This literature review provides an overview of outreach in academic libraries over the last five years. The review aims to centralize the common activities and general purposes of outreach while also bringing emphasis to more strategic outreach efforts such as the incorporation of learning outcomes and assessment into outreach. The review also provides commentary on how outreach can be used to affect information literacy and research.

Paper, possibly an editorial, advocating new legislation to protect the citizens of Texas from the greed of national railway companies. It discusses the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company's intention to build a railroad which would injure existing towns by avoiding them and compete with Texas short line railroads. It includes quotes from Governor T. M. Campbell to Edward P. Ripley, the president of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company.

Paper documenting the history of Round Rock, Texas, for a university level histroy class, including coverage of geography, flora, Native American History, European exploration, businesses, educational and religious development, the Sam Bass shootout, and general settlement up until 1879. A bibliography begins on page 41. Notes can be seen from the writer's professor, Dr. Pool, throughout the paper, including at the top of the title page.

Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper describes the projects completed by music students at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil in a programme exploring how participatory arts projects can be led using highly student centered, creative approaches.

Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper focuses on the teacher education components of the Works Project Administration Federal Music Project.

Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper reports results from ongoing research on alternative ensembles in school music programs.

Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper examines the integration of the arts into local government from a variety of perspectives.

Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper explores concepts of transformation and liberation from Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed as they might be applied to contemporary music education policy and practice.

Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper explains Basil Bernstein's theories of linguistic codes and pedagogic device, and is based on the premise that both the U.K. and the U.S. experience a cultural inversion.

Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper examines teaching approaches to multiculturalism and music education to propose a model of intervention fro dealing with learning and social difficulties.

Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper explores the provision of music education at primary level in Ireland, drawing on ethnographic research carried out in a number of primary schools.

Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper describes a longitudinal study investigating the reasons, benefits, and impact on why twelve urban public school students volunteered in extra-curricular music activities.

Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper presents ongoing research to examine drummers' identities and learning processes.

Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper revisits epistemological foundations of in/formal learning through music by making observations about songs and lessons learnt when studying an approach to music learning the practice of Extreme metal music.

Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper examines views of collaboration in elementary music education.

Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper addresses the emergence of the formalisation of the transmission of traditional music through educational means.

Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper uses Mezirow's transformative learning theory to discuss the delicate balancing act of transforming while avoiding the feeling of rootlessness.

Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper presents observations of pre-service music teacher training as organized in two parts, with one focused on instrumental teaching and the other focused on classroom music teaching.

Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This keynote paper provides perspectives on social cohesion and education, illustrating how ideologies were used to promote socially cohesive societies.

Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper investigates the role of others in the socialization process of members of an amateur string quartet.

Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper investigate relationships among parental influences, academic achievement, demographic factors, and adolescent self-concept, as they relate to students' self-concept as a future music educator.