The Road Goes Ever On: Estelle Jorgensen's Legacy in Music Education
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Western University Scholarship@Western The Road Goes Ever On: Estelle Jorgensen's Legacy in Music Education 12-2019 The Road Goes Ever On: Estelle Jorgensen's Legacy in Music Education Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/jorgensen Part of the Music Education Commons, and the Music Pedagogy Commons Citation of this paper: Allsup, R. E., & Benedict, C. (Eds.). (2019). The road goes ever on: Estelle Jorgensen’s legacy in music education. London, Ontario: Western University. https://doi.org/10.5206/Q1144262.jorgensen.2019 The Road Goes Ever On Estelle Jorgensen’s Legacy in Music Education Editors Randall Everett Allsup, Cathy Benedict, Teachers College Columbia University, Western University, New York, New York, London, Ontario, USA Canada Published December 2019 at Western University London, Ontario, Canada ISBN Print: 978-0-7714-3133-3 Online: 978-0-7714-3134-0 DOI 10.5206/Q1144262.jorgensen.2019 Cover adapted from the portrait by Sharon’s Studios of Gloucester, MA Used by permission This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Estelle R. Jorgensen Photo: Sharon’s Studio of Gloucester, MA Used by permission Short Biography Estelle R. Jorgensen is Professor Emerita of Music (Music Education) at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and University Research Reviewer, Research Methodologist, and Contributing Faculty Member in the Ph.D. program at the Richard W. Riley College of Education and Leadership, Walden University. She began her teaching career as an undergraduate student in Australia, and later taught social studies and choral, general, and instrumental music across the span of elementary through high school levels in Australia and Canada. After receiving the Ph.D. in Education at the University of Calgary, Canada, she taught at the University of Notre Dame of Nelson, British Columbia, the Faculty of Music, McGill University, and the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She has conducted university, amateur, and church choral ensembles, performed as a pianist and accompanist, and taught the gamut of courses in music education, music history and theory, and piano performance. She has also presented her work internationally at leading universities and conferences in music education. She holds honorary doctorates in music from Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts, Finland, and Andrews University, U.S.A., and a Ph.D. in Education from University of Calgary, Canada. Founder of the Philosophy Special Research Interest Group of the National Association for Music Education and co-founder of the International Society for the Philosophy of Music Education, she has led or contributed to international philosophical symposia in music education. Editor of the Philosophy of Music Education Review and the Counterpoints: Music and Education book series published by Indiana University Press, Philosopher-Teacher-Musician: Contemporary Perspectives on Music Education (1993), and co-editor with Iris Yob of Humane Music Education for the Common Good (in press), she is the author of In Search of Music Education (1997), Transforming Music Education (2003), The Art of Teaching Music (2008), Pictures of Music Education (2011), and numerous articles in leading music education journals internationally. Her recently completed book, Values, Music, and Education, is under contract and review at Indiana University Press The Road Goes Ever On Estelle Jorgensen’s Legacy in Music Education Table of Contents The Road Goes Ever On: Preface page ix Randall Everett Allsup Cathy Benedict Section I - The Past is Our Future / The Past is Not Our Future Chapter 1. Of Dialectics, Juxtapositions, and Flexible Thinking page 3 Frank Heuser Chapter 2. Becoming and Being, Being and Becoming: page 11 A Necessary Balance in the Journey of Musician Educators Betty Anne Younker Chapter 3. Is It Athene, Minerva, or Estelle Disguised as Mentor? page 19 Or, Mentoring the Next Generation: Jorgensen as mentor qua Mentor Pamela Stover Chapter 4. The Pursuit of Happiness: page 37 Music Access in 21st Century America Carla E. Aguilar Chapter 5. Transforming Music Education Re-Visited: page 51 The Significance of Internationalization and Mentoring Alexandra Kertz-Welzel The Road Goes Ever On: Estelle Jorgensen’s Legacy in Music Education. Edited by Randall Everett Allsup & Cathy Benedict v Section II - Action and Quest Chapter 6. Pilgrim and Quest Revisited page 65 Iris M. Yob Chapter 7. An Aesthetico-Political Approach to Music Education: page 79 Transformation Beyond Gender Towards a Better World? Cecilia Ferm Almqvist Chapter 8. Embracing and Navigating Uncertainty: page 89 Estelle Jorgensen’s Contribution to International Wisdom June Boyce-Tillman Chapter 9. The Music Educator as Cultural Worker page 105 David Lines Chapter 10. Rethinking the Transgressive: page 119 A Call for "Pessimistic Activism" in Music Education Panagiotis A. Kanellopoulos Section III - Becoming Other Than Chapter 11. Becoming a Story: page 141 Searching for Music Educations Patrick Schmidt Chapter 12. In Search of Liberty: page 151 A Poststructuralist Extension of Jorgensen's Dialectics Lauren Kapalka Richerme Chapter 13. In Search of Choral Music Education: Where is It Now? page 163 Patrick K. Freer The Road Goes Ever On: Estelle Jorgensen’s Legacy in Music Education. Edited by Randall Everett Allsup & Cathy Benedict vi Chapter 14. On Jorgensen’s Dialectical Approach to Music Education: page 177 Resonances with Yin-Yang Leonard Tan Chapter 15. In Search of Music Education and Jorgensen’s Neoclassicism page 189 Deanne Bogdan Section IV – A Passage to Elsewhere Chapter 16. Re-discovering/Facilitating Intimacy in page 207 Borderscapes of Higher Music Education Eleni Lapidaki Chapter 17. Traditions and the End of Music Education page 221 William Perrine Chapter 18. In Defense of the Work of Art: page 239 I and Thou in Music Education Øivind Varkøy Chapter 19. Rethinking the Good, the True, and the Beautiful page 253 for Music Education: New Visions from an Old Garden Hanne Rinholm Section V – An Epilogue for the Unfinished Chapter 20. Cultivating Hope in an Uncertain World: page 273 Engaging with a Pedagogy of Hope in Music Education Marie McCarthy Chapter 21. When I Grow Up, Or Just Another Love Song page 287 Cathy Benedict The Road Goes Ever On: Estelle Jorgensen’s Legacy in Music Education. Edited by Randall Everett Allsup & Cathy Benedict vii The Road Goes Ever On: Preface Randall Everett Allsup Teachers College Columbia University, New York, New York, USA [email protected] Cathy Benedict Western University, London, Ontario, Canada [email protected] “I have suggested,” Estelle Jorgensen capture the many ways that the music wrote in her best known book Transforming education philosophy community has Music Education, “that music educators are journeyed with Jorgensen. Sometimes we often interested in the territory ‘in between’ have travelled with her side-by-side; at other theoretical types – that is, at their times, she has directed our journey by intersection or in their vanishing points. Of pointing us in unfamiliar directions. Mayhap, particular interest are those cases where ‘twas a chance reunion at a road’s crossing, a teacher meets student, musical form meets surprise for both of us. function, theory meets practice, one idea meets another, one instructional method Purple prose? Only for those who meets another, one music meets another, have failed to grasp that, like Maxine and so on”1. In-betweenness and one- Greene, Twyla Tharp, Susan Sontag and anotherness; close-by and elsewhere: these others, teacher-author Estelle Jorgensen are locations, dispositions, an ethics of does not write about art without inhabiting practice – ways of living that emphasize the her understanding of art. Though analytic by profound reward of new beginnings. Such a nature, and trained early on as a positivist philosophical stance foregoes the singular in (long since disavowed), her work broke new favor of pluralities, dialogue, and chance ground in the field of music education encounter. Jorgensen, above all, invites us to through a restless insistence on meet. thinking/doing through complexity and dialectic tension. She has brought to our In this collection of essays, we invited cognitive and developmental models a diverse authors to share how their work needed timeout (not expulsion, just an intersects with the writing, teaching, and opportunity to cool off) – a chance for the leadership of Estelle Jorgensen. We hoped to model to meet with the metaphoric and the The Road Goes Ever On: Estelle Jorgensen’s Legacy in Music Education. Edited by Randall Everett Allsup & Cathy Benedict ix spiritual. “Metaphors lead us in a very dialogue with the reader. As the first major different direction,” she writes. “Instead of female author in a male domain, Jorgensen’s tending towards the one right or best way, focus on becoming made her contributions the one all-encompassing grand narrative, less easy to summarize and thus more no matter what it be, thinking about music difficult to proliferate. As a consequence, a education metaphorically opens up many mismatch emerged between the possibilities of seeing the work of education indisputable impact of Jorgensen’s in ways that defy reduction to a single philosophical/professional work and critical universal principle”2. Jorgensen’s great inquiry/implementation of her thinking. This achievement was to make life messier for gap – between influence and examination; music teachers and music