Daniel J. Shevock
Music Teacher and Percussionist
Expertise: K-12 and Undergraduate, Instrumental and General Music Education
Interests: Philosophy, Poetry, Blogging, Gardening, Hiking, Swimming, and Running
Contact: [email protected]
Please visit eco-literate.com, where I extend my work on the possibility of a critical ecological literacy for music education through a blog and materials music teachers might find useful.
My Publications:
DISSERTATION:
Shevock, Daniel John. “Praxes for Confident Music Improvising.” (PhD diss., The Pennsylvania State University, 2015). UMI 3715564. [May 2015]
BOOKS (REFEREED):
[Forthcoming] Shevock, Daniel J. and Vincent C. Bates. Music Lessons for a Living Planet: Engaging All Ages in Ecomusicology. (New York & London: Routledge, Under Contract).
Shevock, Daniel J. Eco-Literate Music Pedagogy. (New York & London: Routledge, 2018). New Directions in Music Education series, edited by Clint A. Randles. ISBN-10: 0415792576. DOI: 10.4324/9781315211596. [Published July, 2017]
JOURNAL ARTICLES (REFEREED):
Gossett, Jason, Daniel J. Shevock and Linda Thornton “Band Director Perceptions of Tradition and Change: A National Survey.” Contributions to Music Education 47 (May, 2022): 129-150.
Shevock, Daniel J. “An Environmental Philosophy for Music Education Based on Satis Coleman’s (1878-1961) Writings on Music and Nature.” Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education 19, no. 1 (May, 2020): 174-207. DOI: 10.22176/act19.1.174.
Shevock, Daniel J., and Vincent C. Bates. “A Music Educator’s Guide to Saving the Planet.” Music Educators Journal 105, no. 4 (June, 2019): 15-20. DOI: 10.1177/0027432119843318. [Lead Article]
Shevock, Daniel J. “Waste in Popular Music Education: Rock’s Problematic Metaphor and Instrument-Making for Eco-Literacy.” TOPICS for Music Education Praxis 2019, no. 2 (June, 2019): 37-56. http://topics.maydaygroup.org/articles/2019/Shevock_2019.pdf
Shevock, Daniel J. “The Experience of Confident Music Improvising.” Research Studies in Music Education 40, no. 1 (June, 2018): 102-116. DOI: 10.1177/1321103X17751935.
Shevock, Daniel J. “Music Educated and Uprooted: My Story of Rurality, Whiteness, Musicing, and Teaching.” Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education 15, no. 4 (August, 2016): 30-55. DOI: 10.22176/act15.4.30.
Stringham, David A., Linda C. Thornton, and Daniel J. Shevock. “Composition and Improvisation in Instrumental Methods Courses: Instrumental Music Teacher Educators’ Perspectives.” Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education 205 (Summer, 2015): 7-25. DOI: 10.5406/bulcouresmusedu.205.0007.
Shevock, Daniel J. “The Possibility of Eco-literate Music Pedagogy.” TOPICS for Music Education Praxis 2015, no. 1 (October, 2015): 1-23. http://topics.maydaygroup.org/articles/2015/Shevock2015.pdf
Shevock, Daniel J. “Satis Coleman—A Spiritual Philosophy for Music Education.” Music Educators Journal 102, no. 1 (September, 2015): 56-61. DOI: 10.1177/0027432115590182.
Shevock, Daniel J. “Reflections on Freirean Pedagogy in a Jazz Combo Lab.” Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education 14, no. 2 (August, 2015): 85-121. http://act.maydaygroup.org/articles/Shevock14_2.pdf.
CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS (REFEREED):
[Forthcoming] Daniel J. Shevock “Place-Conscious: The Social and Ecological in School Music Education.” In The SAGE Handbook of School Music Education, edited by José Aróstegui, Catharina Christophersen, Jean Nichols, and Koji Matsunobu (Thousand Oaks: SAGE).
Shorner-Johnson, Kevin, Martha Gonzalez & Daniel J. Shevock “Convivencias and a Web of Care.” In The Oxford Handbook of Care in Music Education, edited by Karin S. Hendricks (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), 69-78. [Chapter 6]
Bates, Vincent C., Daniel J. Shevock, & Anita Prest. “Cultural Diversity, Ecodiversity, and Music Education.” In The Politics of Diversity in Music Education, edited by Alexis Anja Kallio, Heidi Westerlund, Sidsel Karlsen, Kathryn Marsh, and Eva Sæther (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2021), 163-174. [Chapter 11]
Bates, Vincent C., & Daniel J. Shevock. “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Social Media in Music Education.” In The Oxford Handbook of Social Media and Music Learning, edited by Janice L. Waldron, Stephanie Horsley and Kari K. Veblen (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), 619-644. [Chapter 31]
Shevock, Daniel J. “Improvisation in Instrumental Music: A Historical Perspective.” In Musicianship: Improvising in Band and Orchestra, edited by David A. Stringham and H. Christian Bernhard (Chicago: GIA Publications, 2019), 23-39. [Chapter 2]
BOOK REVIEWS AND CRITICISM:
Shevock, Daniel J. “Book Reviews: Music Education for Social Change: Constructing an Activist Music Education.” Music Education Research 23, no. 1 (March, 2021): 125-127. DOI: 10.1080/14613808.2021.1885883. [Essay review of Music Education for Social Change: Constructing an Activist Music Education, by Juliet Hess] (Invited)
Shevock, Daniel J. “Thoughts on the Law, Gatekeepers, and Rerooting.” Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education 16, no. 1 (August, 2017): 53-65. DOI: 10.22176/act16.1.53. [Essay review of Remixing the Classroom: Toward an Open Philosophy of Music Education, by Randall Everett Allsup] (Invited)
NON-REFEREED JOURNALS AND OTHER WRITING:
Shevock, Daniel J. “Peace, Place, and Then …: A Practice of Silence.” PMEA News: The Official Publication of the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association 83, no. 3 (Spring, 2019): 14-15. (Invited)
Shevock, Daniel J. “Confident Musical Improvising.” In Research, edited by Alison Reynolds, PMEA News: The Official Publication of the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association 77, no. 3 (Spring, 2013): 66-67. (Invited)
Wikipedia (Authored and edited pages), July 2017-2018
Satis N. Coleman (February 2018), link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satis_N._Coleman
MayDay Group (February 2018), Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MayDay_Group
Eco-Literate Pedagogy blog, 2018-
Posts broadened political, philosophical, and practical elements of teaching music for ecological literacy in the wake of my publication, Eco-Literate Music Pedagogy, Link: www.eco-literate.com/blog
DISSERTATION:
Shevock, Daniel John. “Praxes for Confident Music Improvising.” (PhD diss., The Pennsylvania State University, 2015). UMI 3715564. [May 2015]
BOOKS (REFEREED):
[Forthcoming] Shevock, Daniel J. and Vincent C. Bates. Music Lessons for a Living Planet: Engaging All Ages in Ecomusicology. (New York & London: Routledge, Under Contract).
Shevock, Daniel J. Eco-Literate Music Pedagogy. (New York & London: Routledge, 2018). New Directions in Music Education series, edited by Clint A. Randles. ISBN-10: 0415792576. DOI: 10.4324/9781315211596. [Published July, 2017]
JOURNAL ARTICLES (REFEREED):
Gossett, Jason, Daniel J. Shevock and Linda Thornton “Band Director Perceptions of Tradition and Change: A National Survey.” Contributions to Music Education 47 (May, 2022): 129-150.
Shevock, Daniel J. “An Environmental Philosophy for Music Education Based on Satis Coleman’s (1878-1961) Writings on Music and Nature.” Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education 19, no. 1 (May, 2020): 174-207. DOI: 10.22176/act19.1.174.
Shevock, Daniel J., and Vincent C. Bates. “A Music Educator’s Guide to Saving the Planet.” Music Educators Journal 105, no. 4 (June, 2019): 15-20. DOI: 10.1177/0027432119843318. [Lead Article]
Shevock, Daniel J. “Waste in Popular Music Education: Rock’s Problematic Metaphor and Instrument-Making for Eco-Literacy.” TOPICS for Music Education Praxis 2019, no. 2 (June, 2019): 37-56. http://topics.maydaygroup.org/articles/2019/Shevock_2019.pdf
Shevock, Daniel J. “The Experience of Confident Music Improvising.” Research Studies in Music Education 40, no. 1 (June, 2018): 102-116. DOI: 10.1177/1321103X17751935.
Shevock, Daniel J. “Music Educated and Uprooted: My Story of Rurality, Whiteness, Musicing, and Teaching.” Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education 15, no. 4 (August, 2016): 30-55. DOI: 10.22176/act15.4.30.
Stringham, David A., Linda C. Thornton, and Daniel J. Shevock. “Composition and Improvisation in Instrumental Methods Courses: Instrumental Music Teacher Educators’ Perspectives.” Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education 205 (Summer, 2015): 7-25. DOI: 10.5406/bulcouresmusedu.205.0007.
Shevock, Daniel J. “The Possibility of Eco-literate Music Pedagogy.” TOPICS for Music Education Praxis 2015, no. 1 (October, 2015): 1-23. http://topics.maydaygroup.org/articles/2015/Shevock2015.pdf
Shevock, Daniel J. “Satis Coleman—A Spiritual Philosophy for Music Education.” Music Educators Journal 102, no. 1 (September, 2015): 56-61. DOI: 10.1177/0027432115590182.
Shevock, Daniel J. “Reflections on Freirean Pedagogy in a Jazz Combo Lab.” Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education 14, no. 2 (August, 2015): 85-121. http://act.maydaygroup.org/articles/Shevock14_2.pdf.
CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS (REFEREED):
[Forthcoming] Daniel J. Shevock “Place-Conscious: The Social and Ecological in School Music Education.” In The SAGE Handbook of School Music Education, edited by José Aróstegui, Catharina Christophersen, Jean Nichols, and Koji Matsunobu (Thousand Oaks: SAGE).
Shorner-Johnson, Kevin, Martha Gonzalez & Daniel J. Shevock “Convivencias and a Web of Care.” In The Oxford Handbook of Care in Music Education, edited by Karin S. Hendricks (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), 69-78. [Chapter 6]
Bates, Vincent C., Daniel J. Shevock, & Anita Prest. “Cultural Diversity, Ecodiversity, and Music Education.” In The Politics of Diversity in Music Education, edited by Alexis Anja Kallio, Heidi Westerlund, Sidsel Karlsen, Kathryn Marsh, and Eva Sæther (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2021), 163-174. [Chapter 11]
Bates, Vincent C., & Daniel J. Shevock. “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Social Media in Music Education.” In The Oxford Handbook of Social Media and Music Learning, edited by Janice L. Waldron, Stephanie Horsley and Kari K. Veblen (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), 619-644. [Chapter 31]
Shevock, Daniel J. “Improvisation in Instrumental Music: A Historical Perspective.” In Musicianship: Improvising in Band and Orchestra, edited by David A. Stringham and H. Christian Bernhard (Chicago: GIA Publications, 2019), 23-39. [Chapter 2]
BOOK REVIEWS AND CRITICISM:
Shevock, Daniel J. “Book Reviews: Music Education for Social Change: Constructing an Activist Music Education.” Music Education Research 23, no. 1 (March, 2021): 125-127. DOI: 10.1080/14613808.2021.1885883. [Essay review of Music Education for Social Change: Constructing an Activist Music Education, by Juliet Hess] (Invited)
Shevock, Daniel J. “Thoughts on the Law, Gatekeepers, and Rerooting.” Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education 16, no. 1 (August, 2017): 53-65. DOI: 10.22176/act16.1.53. [Essay review of Remixing the Classroom: Toward an Open Philosophy of Music Education, by Randall Everett Allsup] (Invited)
NON-REFEREED JOURNALS AND OTHER WRITING:
Shevock, Daniel J. “Peace, Place, and Then …: A Practice of Silence.” PMEA News: The Official Publication of the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association 83, no. 3 (Spring, 2019): 14-15. (Invited)
Shevock, Daniel J. “Confident Musical Improvising.” In Research, edited by Alison Reynolds, PMEA News: The Official Publication of the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association 77, no. 3 (Spring, 2013): 66-67. (Invited)
Wikipedia (Authored and edited pages), July 2017-2018
Satis N. Coleman (February 2018), link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satis_N._Coleman
MayDay Group (February 2018), Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MayDay_Group
Eco-Literate Pedagogy blog, 2018-
Posts broadened political, philosophical, and practical elements of teaching music for ecological literacy in the wake of my publication, Eco-Literate Music Pedagogy, Link: www.eco-literate.com/blog
Teaching Experience:
Music Teacher, Central Mountain Middle School, Keystone Central School District, 2023-
Predictable-Term Sub, Mt. Nittany Middle School, State College Area School District, 2022
Long-Term Sub, Park Forrest Middle School, State College Area School District, 2021
Building Sub, Mt. Nittany Elementary School, State College Area School District, 2021
Part-time Adjunct, Music, Penn State Altoona, 2015-2021
After-School and Substitute Teacher, State College Friends School, 2019 (Concurrent)
Assistant Professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2017 (Concurrent)
Emerging Musical Artist in Residence—Jazz, Penn State Altoona, 2016 (Concurrent)
Internship in Higher Education, The Pennsylvania State University, 2014
Teaching Assistant, The Pennsylvania State University, 2011-2014
Music Teacher, The Pittsburgh Public Schools (PA), 2000-2011
Music Teacher, Harford County Public Schools (MD), 1997-1998
Education:
Ph.D., Music Education, The Pennsylvania State University, May 2015
Dissertation: Praxes for Confident Music Improvising; Chair: Linda C. Thornton;
Cognate: Democratic Music Education
M.S., Music Education, Towson University, August 2000
B.S.Ed., Music Education, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, July 1997
Certification:
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Professional Certificate, Music, K-12, Type 65 (Level II)