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Community cookbooks provide social historians with valuable windows into the lives and personalities of the contributors. The VMTA cookbook is no exception, bringing individuals into sharp relief and including asides that delineate the life of a studio music teacher. This narrative historical research relies on primary and secondary sources that are analysed and interpreted to explore this more informal insight into past lives. The data reveal busy lives negotiating teaching schedules and competing  \ndemands, with humour and practicality. The glimpses into the lives of past studio teachers resonate with current practices in this somewhat conservative profession. In this research, we also recognise the contributions of past colleagues.  \nKeywords: Studio music teachers, Victorian Music Teachers’ Association, Fundraising, Community cookbook, Narrative historical research  \nIntroduction  \nThe Victorian Music Teachers’ Association (VMTA) was established with the assistance of personnel from the University of Melbourne and the Australian Music Examinations Board (AMEB) in 1928. Since its inception, the VMTA has championed private studio teaching. In the absence of a piano society in Victoria, pianists join the VMTA, while many other instrumentalists can also join specific instrumental organisations (for example, the Victorian Flute Guild). Some of the major figures of Australian music – luminaries such as Sir Bernard Heinze (1894-1982), Louise Hanson-Dyer (1884-1962), Max Cooke (1924- ), and Ronald Farren-Price (1930- )– played prominent roles in the development of the Association, but it was May Clifford (1919-2005) who arguably made the greatest contribution to the VMTA. Clifford served as President from 1974  \nto 1999. The core business of the VMTA has always been the advancement of music teaching through professional development activities, performance opportunities for teachers and students, and social events. One of Clifford’s aims during her presidency was to establish Association-owned rooms to accommodate these activities. To this end, the VMTA explored fundraising strategies, buton a modest scale. A Building Fund was launched in 1992 and two editions ofthe VMTA cookbook, Prestissimo Food for Agitato Musicians (Food produced as fast as possible for agitated musicians)(PFfAM) were launched in 1993. The timing was not ideal; the economic downturn of the 1990s did not help the cause of fundraising, but did nothing to deter Clifford. At that time, a cookbook was an established fundraiser in the eyes of communityminded citizens.  \nAustralian Journal of Music Education 29  \nCommunity cookbooks as historical sources  \nOnce dismissed by social historians as too unsophisticated to constitute useful historical data, the ubiquitous fundraising cookbook has gained acceptance and offers an invaluable insight into community organisations (Black, 2010; Boles, 2006; Bower, 2004; Lyons, McGregorLowndes & O’Donoghue, 2006; Nussel, 2006). Since the early 1970s, a wider appreciation of the significance of the ‘everyday’ and commonplace has been gaining a foothold in academic research (Donnelly & Norton, 2011; Southcott, 2016). Even the most basic community cookbooks included the names of those who contributed, capturing the existence of people (particularly women) who might otherwise have been forgotten (Nussel, 2006). Cookbooks pre-date the stove and have existed since the 1790s, although the ‘modern’cookbook originated in the 1870s – an outcome of changes in society including the reduct","cbCaimQVQXG7fm2h","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimQVQXG7fm2h","pdf",217145,12,"English","# Introduction\n## Community cookbooks as historical sources","[{\"question\":\"What is Prestissimo Food for Agitato Musicians and when was it published?\",\"answer\":\"It is a fundraising cookbook published by the Victorian Music Teachers’ Association (VMTA), first released in 1993.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the research use community cookbooks as historical sources?\",\"answer\":\"It analyzes primary and secondary sources and interprets cookbook contributions as windows into contributors’ lives, personalities, and social contexts.\"},{\"question\":\"What do the study findings suggest about studio music teachers’ lives?\",\"answer\":\"The data show busy lives shaped by negotiating teaching schedules and competing demands, expressed through humour and practical concerns.\"}]","Prestissimo Food for Agitato Musicians | PDF",1792078188]