The “Teen-Ager's” Taste in Out-of-School Music

Abstract

THIS article is based on the results of a survey of radio, television, and junior high school “music likes and dislikes” of incoming pupils in a three-year high school for boys, in which the majority of students major in industrial courses. The survey was conducted by Mr. Duffield, chairman of the textbook committee of the Philadelphia Public Schools, and also chairman of the committee studying the problems of the general music class in the senior and vocational high schools of Philadelphia. In asking for comments from his associate superintendent, the director of music, and the assistant director of music, in regard to submitting the material to the Journal, their comments were: “This is strong medicine but I like it.” “It indicates a need for revamping of our entire junior high school music program.” “By all means submit it. I am certain that the results would be substantially the same in most high schools throughout the country.”