Research Chair Carl Hancock
Alabama is a state renowned for its history, football, and research. Our discoveries in agriculture, especially through the work of George Washington Carver, and advances made to the aerospace industry, such as the development of the Saturn V rocket are well- known. However, our other efforts are often overlooked. For example, in 1931 Fred Allison discovered the 89th element, Alabamine now called Astatine. Seale Harris’ diagnosed hyperinsulinemia (pre- diabetes) in 1924 two years after he opened the Seale Harris Clinic in Birmingham. Edward O. Wilson spent his childhood living in and out of Alabama, eventually earned two degrees from the University of Alabama, became the world's foremost scientist on ant behavior, and then established the field of sociobiology. These accomplishments are but a small sample of the research milestones placed by Alabamians on the road to understanding the world we live in.
Music education research also has a firm foothold in our state. Take a look at these bits of trivia.
The University of Alabama was the editorial home of the Journal of Research in Music
Education, the flagship research journal of the music teaching profession and the National Association for Music Education (MENC), from 1994 to 2001 when Harry Price, former department head for music education at Alabama, served as editor. Today, Carl Hancock serves on the editorial board of the JRME.
For over 30 years, Troy University housed the Journal of Band Research, the “premiere scholarly publication in the world devoted to band music, band history, and band methodology.” Today, Mark Walker, Larry Blocher, and Johnny Long continue to provide editorial and other assistance to the JBR.
Auburn University served as the first editorial home of the Journal of Technology in Music Learning. The JTML is “dedicated to the publication of scholarly articles in the field of music learning which investigate applications of instructional technology.” Kimberly Walls, Program Coordinator for Music Education, and Nancy Barry, Head of the Department of Curriculum and Teaching, served as the first and second editors respectively. Today, Kim Walls serves on the
editorial review board of the JTML.
In 1987, The University of Alabama Press published Applications of Research in Music Behavior under the co-editorship of Carol Prickett, current Chair of Music Education at UA and Clifford Madsen from Florida State University. The book was considered “an ambitious collection of recent research studies in music education and music therapy” and became an essential textbook for music education and music therapy research classes across the country.
The Alabama Music Educators Association itself is an ardent supporter of music education research. At the last AMEA In- Service Conference, 21 university faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from Auburn University, Cumberland University, Florida State University, Samford University, and the University of Alabama shared research posters with the music teachers of Alabama. What follows is a list of studies and presenters from the 2011 poster session.
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