 Nancy
F. Vogan has been a faculty member of Mount Allison
University for forty years where she has taught courses
in music education, music history, music in Canada and
introduction to music for non-majors. A native of Moncton
NB she received her BA(music) at Mount Allison
prior to attending the Eastman School of Music, University
of Rochester, for her Master of Music and PhD degrees
in music education. She taught music at Keuka College
and in the public schools of Ontario and New Brunswick
prior to joining Mount Allison.
Her major fields of research have been the history of music instruction and the history of music in Canada. She is coauthor (with J. Paul Green) of Music Education in Canada: A Historical Account (University of Toronto Press, 1991). Other publications include articles in the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The Dictionary of Canadian Biography, the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, the History of the Book in Canada, and the chapter on Canada in The Origins and Foundations of Music Education (Continuum 2010) as well as numerous articles in journals and proceedings. One of her current interests is singing schools and music publications during the 18th and 19th centuries; she is preparing a book on the history of singing schools and tunebooks in the Maritimes.
Nancy Vogan has served on the editorial committee of the Journal of Historical Research in Music Education and has also been a contributing editor for the Canadian Music Educator. She has been a council member of the Bibliographical Society of Canada and has been a research associate of the University of Toronto's Canadian Music Education Research Centre for many years. She is currently the international representative on the council of the NAfME History Special Research Interest Group. She has spoken at numerous conferences and delivered guest lectures at the American Antiquarian Society, the MENC Keokuk II Symposium, and the Toronto Centre for the Book. Dr. Vogan is the recipient of several honours and awards including the Jubilate Award of Merit from the Canadian Music Educators' Association, three SSHRC grants, a British Council Travel Grant, and a Canada-US Fulbright Fellowship, as well as a Paul Paré Award and the Tucker Teaching Award from Mount Allison. In 2003 she was appointed the Pickard-Bell Professor of Music, a position which she still holds.
International music education is one of her many interests. She has participated in workshops of the World Music Drumming Program, attended MENC workshops on world music and also visited schools and music institutions in the United States and Britain. In 2003 she visited South Africa as part of a fifteen-member music education delegation; in the spring of 2004 she visited Russia as a member of a similar delegation. She is a member the International Society for Music Education; she spoke at the 2008 ISME Congress in Bologna, Italy, and travelled to China in the summer of 2010 to participate in the ISME Congress in Beijing.
Nancy Vogan is retiring from Mount Allison at the end of June. She will continue to be involved in campus activities as a research professor, completing the book on singing schools and tunebooks and also researching the history of music teaching at Mount Allison.
Nancy F. Vogan
Pickard-Bell Professor
Department of Music 134 Main St.
Mount Allison University
Sackville New Brunswick E4L 1A6 Canada
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