Here is a list of women mentioned in Howe's (2000) JHRME article, An historical perspective on contributions of American women music educators. Many of these women might be studied more in-depth.
Dan Shevock
List of women in Sondra Wieland Howe’s (2000) article:
“This paper presents an overview of contributions of
American women music educators from the late-nineteenth century to the middle
of the twentieth century” (Howe, 2000, p. 147).
·
Elsie M. Shawe (1866-1962) – Teachers Training
School, St. Paul, Minnesota
·
Emma A. Thomas, Supervisor of music, Detroit
public schools
·
May Usher Griffin, Mankato Normal School,
Minnesota
·
Julia Ettie Crane, Potsdam Music Institute
(Crane School of Music)
·
Jeannette Meyer Thurber, National Conservatory
in New York City
·
Clara Baur, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music
·
Mary Louise Curtis Bok, Curtis Institute of
Music
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African American Women
·
Harriet Gibbs Marshall (1869-1941), Washington
(DC) Conservatory of Music
·
Lulu Vere Childers (1870-1946), Howard
University
·
Emma Azalia Hackley (1867-1922), Vocal Normal
Institute of Detroit
·
Mary Cardwell Dawson (1894-1962), Cardwell
School of Music in Pittsburgh & the National Negro Company
·
Frances Elliott Clark Clark, Presided over first
MSNC (64% of founders of MSNC were women)
·
Elizabeth Casterton
·
Lucy K. Cole, University of Washington
·
Frances Ellen Dütting, Hunter College
·
Constance Barlow-Smith, University of Illinois
·
Mrs. Elizabeth Casterton, Bay City, Michigan
·
Jessie L. Gaynor
·
Eleanor Smith, Chicago
·
Marie Burt Parr, Cleveland
·
Henrietta G. Baker
·
Lilla Belle Pitts
·
Mabelle Glenn, Bloomington, Illinois and Kansas
City, Missouri
·
Marguerite V. Hood, MENC President 1952-54
·
Vanett Lawler
·
Gail martin Haake, Oxford Piano Course
·
Angela Diller
·
Elizabeth Quaile
·
Leila Fletcher
·
June Weybright
·
Ada Richter
·
Helen May Butler, Ladies’ Military Band
·
Consuella Carter & Anna Mae Winburn, The
International Sweethearts of Rhythm
·
Ina Ray Hutton & Her Melodears, the Parisian
Red Heads, Darlings of Rhythm
·
Mrs. Mary Stanley Dana Shindler
·
Mrs. Adelia L. Loughlin
·
Miss Lydia J. Cranston, New Bedford,
Massachusetts
·
Rose Marie Grentzer, Birchard Music Series
References
Howe, S. W.
(2000). An historical perspective on contributions of American women music
educators. Journal of Historical Research
in Music Education, 22(2), 147-158. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/41300440.
