{"id":1379,"date":"2015-09-08T12:41:34","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T19:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2018-04-09T10:01:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T17:01:48","slug":"garrett-allen-mccain-1924","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1379","title":{"rendered":"GARRETT, ALLEN McCAIN, 1924-2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Musician; musicologist; university professor. Born&#8211; March 29, 1924, Birmingham; grew up in Chapel Hill, NC. Parents&#8211; Mitchell Bennett and Dora Mayfred (Matthews) Garrett. Married&#8211; Louise Lynch Jones, June 5, 1948. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; University of North Carolina, A.B., 1947, M.A., 1949, Ph.D., 1952. Served in the U. S. Navy, WWII. Faculty member, Catholic University of America, 1952-1966; professor of music and assistant dean of Temple University College of Music, 1966-.\u00a0 Member, Music Educators National Conference; Musical Fund Society; Music Teachers National Association; president, North Carolina Chapter of the American Musicological Society, Pennsylvania State Music Teachers Association and Maryland State Music Teachers Association; member Chi Phi, and Phi Mu Alpha. Died December 7, 2008.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in the East, 1975; obituary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An Introduction to Research in Music. Washington, D.C.; Catholic University of America Press, 1965.<\/p>\n<p>William Billings and the Fuguing Tune.\u00a0 University of North Carolina Press, 1949.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Musician; musicologist; university professor. Born&#8211; March 29, 1924, Birmingham; grew up in Chapel Hill, NC. Parents&#8211; Mitchell Bennett and Dora Mayfred (Matthews) Garrett. Married&#8211; Louise Lynch Jones, June 5, 1948. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; University of North Carolina, A.B., 1947, M.A., 1949, Ph.D., 1952. Served in the U. S. Navy, WWII. Faculty member, Catholic University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-g-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7798,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions\/7798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}