CAROLYN LIVINGSTON has taught graduate and undergraduate courses at the University of Rhode Island since 1987. She was Coordinator of Music Education from 1989-1997 and Director of Graduate Studies in Music from 1997-2006. She has taught twenty-four separate courses at URI, a number of which she originated.
Dr. Livingston's primary research interest is history of music education. Presented with the History SRIG's Biennial Service Award in 2006 for "outstanding service and research," She is one of four history researchers invited to present separate sessions commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of MENC at the 60 th National Biennial In-Service Conference held in Salt Lake City , Utah in April 2006. She was chair of MENC's History Special Research Interest Group (SRIG) and editor of the national newsletter, History Notes , from 2000-2002. Dr. Livingston has been an invited presenter for History SRIG sessions at four MENC national conferences and presented papers at Philosophy of Music Education International Symposia II, III and IV.
A member of the editorial committees of the Journal of Research in Music Education (JRME) and the Journal of Historical Research in Music Education (JHRME), her articles have appeared in numerous professional journals, including JRME, JHRME, Bulletin of Historical Research in Music Education, Philosophy of Music Education Review, Music Educators Journal, Update, Quarterly Journal of Music Teaching and Learning, American Music Teacher, Choral Journal, Opera Journal, British Music, Rhode Island Music Educators Record, and Tennessee Musician . Dr. Livingston was named URI Humanities Faculty Fellow for 2003-2004. She was awarded a sabbatical leave for the academic year 2003-2004 to co-edit a book which is still in progress, Music and Music Education in Rhode Island: Historical Essays .
Dr. Livingston is author of Charles Faulkner Bryan: His Life and Music , published by the University of Tennessee Press . Reviews of the book have appeared in a number of professional journals. A review by Patricia Shehan Campbell in the Music Educators Journal stated, "Thanks to Livingston's meticulous research, we see not only Bryan 's life but also mid-twentieth-century America , American music, and music education. . . We come away with a deeper understanding not only of Bryan 's music-educational influence but also an important time in American musical life." Writing in The Tennessee Musician , William Lee commented that "Author Livingston deserves our greatest praise. . . . This is a singular book about our profession, a rare scholarly effort in history, well worth the time to read, consider, and enjoy." Walter B. Bailey, in his review in the Journal of Southern History, concluded that "Livingston's book is a valuable contribution to the history of music in the United States ." |
