Thursday, September 3, 2015

Dominique-René de Lerma: Regarding College


REGARDING COLLEGE

Dominique-René de Lerma

            Midway through my teens, I looked forward to the monthly mail delivery of Musical America, a journal that introduced me to concert life and even now, more than 80 years later, is still a vital source on the subject.
            In keeping with the fall season, it recently published a directory of music schools – evidently only those who also placed advertisements – with abstracted data.  My perusal immediately sought listings of Black schools, but these were all missing.  Following is an effort to compensate for that hiatus.
            To consider only the HBCU (historically Black colleges and universities) schools is not sufficient, nor is the term accurate.  Better they should be identified as schools that historically have not discriminated.  During my years at Morgan State University I had students, not just Black American and from Africa, but Asians and Caucasians who sought an education with a Black perspective.   And it should be noted that the integration of schools resulted in racial mixtures, responding not only to the earlier matter of quotas, but enriching the orientation of the non-Black students with the advantages of cultural diversity.
            Recent political thought has brought up the question of why government-sponsored education should terminate with the twelfth year.  A modest proposal suggests that two-year community colleges should be tuition-free to qualified enrollees, but the thought has been advanced that this would be extended to state-supported four-year universities.  That concept might be regarded as creeping socialism by some, whose anxiety might be eased with an awareness that the result would include a boost in tax revenue, but such a move would be viewed with horror by the private universities (whose tuition is already substantially more than state-supported schools).
            Among those listed below are conservatories that are accredited to award graduate degrees and have thus allied themselves with an established university that already had a graduate school.  Among the Black schools offering graduate degrees in music currently are Morgan State University and Howard University.
            In the past one expected a conservatory to provide instruction in performance nly, while a university’s music school gave emphasis to academic studies – music theory and history – and avoided instrumental and vocal studies, but this concept, patterned after European practice, is no longer valid. 
            Potential students might wish to base a selection on a curriculum that includes Black studies.  Those non-HBCU institutions below, so Musical America reports, offering work in jazz are so indicated.  To determine which offer comprehensive examination of the history one needs to consult the annual directory of the College Music Society.  While ethnomusicology is listed, one cannot be sure that a Black music history class would give note to minstrelsy, Grace Bumbry, Jelly Roll Morton, and George Walker.  Perhaps the time is passed when a school would not allow independent research on Adolphus Hailstork or the inclusion of Tom Turpin on recitals.
            Schools with a predominately Black student body appear in italics.
            What is yet needed is a directory identifying Black professors and their areas of expertise, allied with schools where they are or have been engaged.

ALABAMA
Fairfield
Miles College

Gadsten
Gadsten State Community College

Huntsville
J. F. Drake State Technical College
Oakwood University
Mobile
Bishop State Community College

Montgomery
Trenholm State Technical College

Selma
Concordia College
Selma University. 

Talledega
Talladega College

Tuscaloosa
Shelton State Community College. 
Stillman College

Tuskegee
Tuskegee University

ARIZONA
Tempe
Arizona State University, School of Music…jazz

ARKANSAS
Little Rock
Arkansas Baptist College
Philander Smith  College
Shorter College

Pine Bluff
University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff

CALIFORNIA
La Miranda
Biola University, Conservatory of Music…jazz                    

Los Angeles
Colburn School
University of Southern California, Thornton School of Music

San Francisco
San Francisco Conservatory of Music

CANADA
Toronto
Royal Conservatory of Music,Glenn Gould School

CONNECTICUT
Hartford
University of Hartford, Hartt School…jazz

New Haven
Yale University, School of Music

DELAWARE
Wilmington
Delaware State University 

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Washington
Howard University 
University of the District of Colombia 

ENGLAND
London
Royal College of Music

FLORIDA
Boca Raton
Lynn Conservatory of Music

Coral Gables
University of Miami, Frost School of Music…jazz

Daytona Beach
Bethune-Cookman College

Jacksonville
Edward Waters College 

Miami Gardens
Florida Memorial University

Tallahassee
Florida A&M University

GEORGIA
Atlanta    
Clark Atlanta University
Interdenominational Theological Center
Morehouse College
Morris Brown College
Spellman College                                                                      

Augusta
Paine College

Fort Valley
Fort Valley State University

Savannah
Savannah State University 

GERMANY
Berlin
Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler…jazz

INDIANA
Bloomington
Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music…jazz

ILLINOIS
Evanston
Northwestern University, Bienen School of Music…jazz

KENTUCKY
Frankfort
Kentucky State University

LOUISIANA
Baton Rouge
Southern University and A&M College 

Grambling
Grambling State University
 
New Orleans
Dillard University
Southern University-New Orleans
Xavier University of Louisiana

Shreveport
Southern University-Shreveport

MARYLAND
Baltimore
Coppin State University 
Johns Hopkins University, Peabody Conservatory
Morgan State University

Bowie
Bowie State University

Princess Anne
University of Maryland Eastern Shore

MASSACHUSETTS
Boston
Bard College, Longy School of Music
Berklee College of Music…jazz
New England Conservatory…jazz

MISSISSIPPI
Coahoma County
Coahoma Community College

Hinds County
Tougaloo College

Holly Springs
Rust College

Itta Bena
Mississippi Valley State University

Jackson
Jackson State University

Utica
Hinds Community College

MISSOURI
Jefferson City
Lincoln University of Missouri

Parksville
Park University

Saint Louis
Harris-Stowe State University

NEW JERSEY
Princeton
Rider University, Westminster Choir School

NEW YORK
New York
Columbia & Barnard Colleges, Juilliard School
Manhattan School of Music
New School, Mannes School of Music
New School, School of Jazz…jazz

Purchase
State University of New York-Purchase, Purchase College Conservatory of Music

Rochester
University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music…jazz

NORTH CAROLINA
Charlotte
Johnson C. Smith University

Concord
Barber-Scotia College

Durham
North Carolina Central University

Elizabeth City
Elizabeth City State University 

Fayetteville
Fayetteville State University

Greensboro
Bennett College
North Carolina A&T State University

Raleigh
Saint Augustine’s University
Shaw University

Salisbury
Livingstone College

Winston-Salem
Winston-Salem State University
                                                                                                   
OHIO
Columbus
Ohio State University, School of Music

Oberlin
Oberlin Conservatory of Music…jazz

Wilberforce
Central State University
Wilberforce University

OKLAHOMA
Langston
Langston University

PENNSYLVANIA
Cheyney
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

Chester County
Lincoln University

Philadelphia
Curtis Institute of Music

Pittsburgh
Carnegie Mellon University, School of Music

SOUTH CAROLINA
Columbia
Benedict College

Denmark
Denmark Technical College
Voorhees College

Kittell
Kittell College

Orangeburg
Claflin University
South Carolina State University

Rock Hill
Clinton Junior College

Sumter
Morris College

TENNESSEE
Nashville
American Baptist College
Fisk University
Meharry Medical College
Tennessee State University

Knoxville
Knoxville College

Jackson
Lane College

Memphis
Lawson State Community College
LeMoyne-Owen College

TEXAS
Austin
Houston-Tillotson University
University of Texas-Austin, Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music…jazz

Dallas
Paul Quinn College
Southern Methodist University, Meadows School of Music

Denton
University of North Texas, College of Music…jazz

Hawkins
Jarvis Christian College                                                              

Houston
Texas Southern University
University of Houston, Moores School of Music
                                               
Marshall
Wiley College

Prairie View
Prairie View A&M University

San Antonio
Saint Phillip’s College

Terrell
Southwestern Christian College
Tyler
Texas College

VIRGIN ISLANDS (U.S.)
Saint Thomas
University of the Virgin Islands

VIRGINIA
Hampton
Hampton University

Lawrenceville
Saint Paul’s College

Lynchburg
Virginia University-Lynchburg

Norfolk
Norfolk State University

Petersburg
Virginia State University 

Richmond
Virginia Union University

WEST VIRGINIA
Bluefield
Bluefield State College

Institute
West Virginia State University


WISCONSIN
Madison
University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Music…jazz

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