San Francisco State University's Music Federation
A local jazz cooperative for teachers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/jazz.v5i1-2.113Keywords:
desegregation, music education, San Francisco, West Coast jazzAbstract
San Francisco State College was uniquely situated adjacent to a vibrant African-American jazz community in the post-World War II years to expand music curriculum to serve musicians professionally matured during the war effort to retrain to be teachers on the G.I. Bill. This article examines the cooperative effort of the College’s instructors and veterans to establish the first known college-sanctioned jazz course under an umbrella organization of the campus’s Music Federation.
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Miller, Leta E. (2007) ‘Racial Segregation and the San Francisco Musicians’ Union, 1923–60’. Journal of the Society for American Music 1(2): 161–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1752196307070071
Otey, Wendell (1946) ‘Basing Theory on Living Music: A Suggestion that Theory Courses be Reconciled with Educational Goals’. Music Educators Journal 32(5) (April): 20–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3400404
Ramsey, Doug (2005) Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond. Seattle: Parkside Publications.
San Francisco State University (1899–) Bulletin. San Francisco, CA: San Francisco State University.
—(1973) Campusmemo/Footnotes. San Francisco, CA: San Francisco State University.
Searle, Robert E. (2011) ‘Dance Band Class SFSU: Recollections of Robert E. ‘Bob’ Searle, Ed.D—former Dance Band student director’. Dance Band Collection. Special Collections Department, J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco.
Starr, Kevin (2009) Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950–1963. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Tjader Biographical File. ‘Cal Tjader [by R.W.H.]’. Special Collections Department, J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco.
United States War and Navy Department (1945) Going Back to Civilian Life. Washington, DC: War and Navy Department.
Walsh, Alex, and Eddie Alley (2004) Eddie Alley: Gentleman of Rhythm, and Oral History, ed. Jeff Friedman and Basya Petnick for Legacy Oral History Program. San Francisco: San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum.
Published
2012-11-19
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Articles
How to Cite
Eliassen, M. M. (2012). San Francisco State University’s Music Federation: A local jazz cooperative for teachers. Jazz Research Journal, 5(1-2), 113-122. https://doi.org/10.1558/jazz.v5i1-2.113
