This paper explores the history of the University of North Texas' marching band, the Green Brigade Marching Band, including it's early iterations in 1911 to achievements in 2021.

Undergraduate thesis explores the link between self-perceived flow states and a feeling of community belonging within the context of the high school band environment. The methodology observed a positive interdependence between a perceived sense of community and the flow parameters of challenge-skill ratio, utilization of clear goals, and provision of unambiguous feedback.

Paper exploring the composers and events that contributed to the creation of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.

This paper focuses on music trends in Recife, Brazil in 2000-01. It explores how alternative music communicates a contemporary regional identity in Northeast Brazil, is affected by cultural politics, and circulates within the musical market, in order to show how the perceived demands of globalization, such as the need to consume the products of the global entertainment industry, intersect with the dynamics of a regional music community. It was presented at the first Associação Brasileira de Etnomusicologia conference held in Recife in November 2002.

This paper explains how alternative music communicates a contemporary regional identity in Northeast Brazil, is affected by cultural politics, and circulates within the musical market, in order to show how the perceived demands of globalization, such as the need to consume the products of the global entertainment industry, intersect with the dynamics of a regional music community. It was presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology held in Detroit, Michigan on October 25-28, 2001.

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 essay explores the author's perspective of Mangue Beat and popular culture. The discussion of popular culture focuses on the musical aspects of popular culture, especially those he experienced during his time living in Recife, Brazil from 1990-91. It includes a translation into Brazilian Portuguese by André Curiati de Paula Bueno.

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.