Carl B. Hancock, PhD
Associate Professor of Music EducationProgram Director of University Campus Band
chancock@music.ua.edu
205-348-6335
Room 262 Moody Music Building
Carl B. Hancock is Associate Professor of Music Education and Program Director for the Campus Band at the University of Alabama. Dr. Hancock works with graduate and undergraduate students in classes focused on music education, band methods, music psychology, and graduate research. Before coming to Alabama, he was Assistant Professor of Music Education and Director of the University Outreach Band at the University of Arizona. He holds a BME, MME, and PhD in Music Education with a Certificate in College Teaching from Florida State University.
Dr. Hancock's career as a public school teacher began in 1992 when he directed the band and choir programs at Santa Fe High School. Later he became the first Director of the Sebastian River High School Band Program where he was honored by the Florida Bandmasters Association as a model of Young Director Success.
As a lecturer and clinician Dr. Hancock frequently presents at state, national, and international conferences with recent engagements at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, IL; the MENC National Convention in Anaheim, CA; and the International Symposium for Research in Music Behavior in Barcelona, Spain. Upcoming presentations include the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) National Convention in St. Louis, MO.
As a researcher Dr. Hancock works with the support from the National Center for Educational Statistics in the examination of present and past trends in the national supply and demand of music and arts teachers. Closer to home, he maintains ongoing investigations focused on conducting pedagogy, aesthetic responses to music, and the training of preservice music educators. His work is published in the Journal of Teacher Education, Journal of Research in Music Education, Bulletin for the Council of Research in Music Education, Journal of Band Research, Arts in Education Policy Review, and the Second Edition of the New Grove Dictionary of American Music.
His efforts to give back to the music education community include ongoing service on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Research in Music Education, sitting on the Southern Board of the College Music Society, and guiding research efforts for the Alabama Music Educators Association as State Research Chair. Previous leadership roles include service as national chair of both the Learning and Development and the Affective Response Special Research Interest Groups for the Society for Research in Music Education and time spent on the AMEA Governing Board as State Advisor of the Alabama Collegiate Music Educators Association.
In 2006, Dr. Hancock and his graduate students founded the Tuscaloosa Winds, an intergenerational community/campus band consisting of adult and student musicians throughout West Alabama. Today the ensemble is known as the University of Alabama Campus Band and continues to provide a musical home for over 80 musicians and their audiences.
Dr. Hancock is affiliated with several organizations that support education and advocate for music such as The National Association for Music Education, the Society for Research in Music Education, the College Music Society, the International Society for Music Education, and the American Education Research Association. He is a member of the national music honor society, Pi Kappa Lambda, and an honorary member of both Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma.