The Planning Committee—Members of the Symposium

Randall Everett Allsup is a recent graduate of Teachers College Columbia University where his 2002 dissertation, Crossing Over: Mutual Learning and Democratic Action in Instrumental Music Education was awarded “Outstanding Dissertation of the Year” by the Council on Research in Music Education. 

Prior to returning to Teachers College as assistant professor, Prof. Allsup was coordinator of music education and director of bands at Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY and taught courses in creativity and music education and instrumental conducting at the Chinese Culture University, Taiwan.

Randall Allsup grew up in central Illinois, outside of Kankakee.  A Pell grant recipient, Allsup received a Bachelor of Music from Northwestern University studying saxophone with Frederick L. Hemke.  After graduation, he continued to study saxophone with Jean-Marie Londeix at the Bordeaux Conservatory, France.  At Bordeaux, Allsup was awarded the prestigious Prix d’Or.

Dr. Allsup became interested in issues that deal with music education and social justice, cultural contexts of learning, and democracy and social conscious from his work in schools in neglected neighborhoods of New York City.  First at Hayes High School in the South Bronx and then at the Our Children’s Foundation in West Harlem, Allsup has written about the challenges of reconceptualizing music pedagogy.  His teaching is influenced by thinkers like Maxine Greene, Paulo Freire, and John Dewey.

Articles by Allsup appear in Philosophy of Music Education Review, Music Education Research, Music Educators Journal, Bluegrass Music News,  Teaching Music, and Journal of Research in Music Education.

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