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Her influence extended beyond institutions, reaching children and adults via community teaching and theatrical productions, while radio and television broadened public reach. 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The community touched by Gell was vast: it included her classes in studios and teacher training colleges,‘listeners in’ to her radio programs, viewers of her television programs, Dalcroze trainees, and people in her theatrical productions. This paper focuses on Gell’s work outside institutions and colleges, namely her studio classes in the community for children and adults, and her productions.  \nGell was a talented and imaginative teacher. Entrepreneurial and opportunistic, she used networks of support, and her connections with people of influence to achieve her educational goals. She also took advantage of the electronic technologies of the day. Evidence for this has come through interviews with former students, memoirs, letters, newspaper cuttings, scrapbooks, photographs, archival material, Gell’s writings, syllabi from Departments of Education, and personal contact with Gell herself. Hers is not a conventional story as she was not employed full-time by any state department of education or institution, but worked all her life as a freelance specialist in Dalcroze Eurhythmics.  \nKey words: Heather Gell, Dalcroze Eurhythmics, community music, studio classes, biography, theatre productions, reputation.  \nAustralian Journal of Music Education 2014:2,129-47  \nIntroduction  \nGell’s work in the twentieth century has been investigated extensively in recent years and assessed in the context of the social and economic conditions at the time.1 A major biographical study of Gell has shown how she influenced Australian music education for several decades in the twentieth century through her work across several areas, including music in  \n1. Joan Pope,“ABC School Broadcasts in Western Australia: 1938- 1946: An Investigation into Radio Programs for Early Childhood featuring Music, Movement and Drama.” MEd thesis, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia, 1994; Joan Pope,“Dalcroze Eurhythmics in Australasia –The first generation from 1918.”(PhD diss., Monash University, Melbourne, 2008); Jane Southcott, ed. Dalcroze Eurhythmics from a Distance – a miscellany of recent research. (Turramurra NSW: Heather Gell Dalcroze Foundation, 2007) .  \nthe community.2 According to Gordon Cox, biographical research offers a chance to view relationships between educational processes and social change.3 The research on Gell has revealed several themes in Australian society: the culture of charity and volunteerism in the Kindergarten world before the advent of government funding in the 1970s, the role of the Australian Broadcasting Commission in school education, the effect of the Depression and two world  \n2. Sandra Nash,“Heather Gell: a Dalcroze influence in Australian Music education 1924 – 1979.” PhD thesis, University of Sydney, 2011.  \n3. Gordon Cox,“Transforming Research in Music Education History,”in The New Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning, eds. Richard Colwell and Carol Richardson. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 695-706.  \nwars on society and education, women in the workplace, and the pioneering days of dance and theatre. Other themes include music teaching and learning in private studios and informal settings, the role of the free-lance teacher, networks of support, and reputation as a factor in promotion of one’s music education objectives.  \nResearch by dance historian Selma Odom into practices and reputation in dance worldsand networks of artists and teachers reveals much about the early reputation ofthe Dalcroze method and its teachers, or ‘insiders.’4 She notes that many talented young teachers who worked with Jaques-Dalcroze deserve more recognition but this is unlikely ‘because the hierarchy of reputation in the","cbCaivTYpqLPXpc1","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivTYpqLPXpc1","pdf",197190,"English","# Introduction\n## Biographical context and research themes\n## Community work, media broadcasts, and productions","[{\"question\":\"What is the focus of the paper on Heather Gell’s work?\",\"answer\":\"It focuses on Gell’s activities outside institutions and colleges, especially her studio classes in the community for children and adults and her theatrical productions.\"},{\"question\":\"How did Gell’s reputation spread in Australia?\",\"answer\":\"Her reputation was established in Adelaide in the 1930s and expanded through national broadcasts of her radio programs, Music through Movement for children, from 1939 to 1959.\"},{\"question\":\"What sources support the research about Gell?\",\"answer\":\"The study uses evidence from interviews with former students, memoirs, letters, newspaper cuttings, scrapbooks, photographs, archival materials, Gell’s writings, educational syllabi, and personal contact with Gell.\"}]","Heather Gell and music education in the community - biography | PDF",1792077631,48]