J. Bryan Burton
Professor of Music Education
Graduate Coordinator for the School of Music

Room 32, Swope Hall
Phone: 610-436-2222
jburton3@wcupa.edu

Thoughts on SOM

Mission at SOM

Curriculum Vitae

Education
B.Mus.Ed, West Texas State University; M.A. in Music, Western State College of Colorado; D.Mus.Ed, University of Southern Mississippi.

Dr. Burton is an internationally recognized authority in the field of multicultural music education. He is the author of several major texts on Native American musical culture (Moving Within the Circle: Contemporary Native American Music and Dance, When the Earth Was Like New: Western Apache Songs and Stories, Voices of the Wind: Native American Flute Songs), a contributing author to Multicultural Perspectives in Music Education, 2nd Edition (Anderson and Campbell, Editors), Making Connections: Multicultural Music and the National Standards (Anderson and Moore, Editors), The Sociology of Music Education (Roger Rideout, Editor), Many Seeds – Different Flowers: The Music Education Legacy of Carl Orff (Andre de Quadros, Editor), World Musics and Music Education: Facing the Issues (Bennett Reimer, Editor), eight volumes in the MENC Strategies for Teaching Series, and other teaching anthologies. In addition, he is regularly published in professional journals around the world. He is a contributing author for the Silver-Burdett Classroom music basal series Making Music.

He has presented workshops and lectures on world music in Europe, Asia Australia, Africa, and the United States for such professional organizations as Music Educators national Conference, International Society for Ethnomusicology, American Orff-Schulwerk Association and Organization of American Kodaly Educators. Burton currently serves as Chair of the Education Committee of the Society for Ethnomusicology, the Executive Board of the Society for Music Teacher Education, Association, Associate Editor for Scholars Journal, Editorial board for Music Education International and is a world music consultant for publishers and composers throughout the world.

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