Clint Randles
Associate Professor of Music Education
Email: randlesc@usf.edu
Phone: (616) 481-8949
Clint Randles has taught Music Education courses at USF since 2010. His classes include: “Creative Performance Chamber Ensemble” and “Senior Seminar” at the undergraduate level, and “Philosophical and Historical Perspectives in Music Education” and “Creativity in Music Teaching and Learning” at the graduate level for students in the College of the Arts and the College of Education. He also teaches classes for students with disabilities in a community music outreach sponsored by Arts4All Florida. A Michigan native, Randles received his bachelor of music education degree from Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, and both his Master of Music and Doctor of Philosophy in Music Education degrees from Michigan State University.
Dr. Randles is the recipient of the 2015 Michael L. Mark Music Research Award for outstanding research by an early career scholar/researcher, issued by the University of Michigan. His research interests include the intersection of motivation theory and creativity, and exploration of the construct “creative identity."
Dr. Randles has presented papers at state, national, and international conferences in the US, Canada, Brazil, Egypt, England, Ireland, Finland, China, Australia, and New Zealand. He has articles (24) published in many of the top journals in music education. He has published 14 book chapters in numerous handbooks for Oxford, Routledge, CMEA, GIA, R&L Education and others. He has two co-edited books: Musicianship: Composing in Band and Orchestra (GIA Publications), and Music Education: Navigating the Future (Routledge), and one forthcoming titled Giant Steps: Understanding Creativities in Music Education (Routledge: New York). In addition, he has formed two book series, Musicianship through GIA Publishing (Chicago) and the New Directions in Music Education series with Routledge (New York) to assist the music profession in realizing expanded curricular possibilities on a large scale. He is the author of To Create: Imagining the Good Life Through Music (GIA Publications: Chicago, IL) that was released in the Summer of 2020. Two monographs are forthcoming in 2021: (1) Music Teacher as Music Producer: How to Turn Your Classroom into a Center for Musical Creativity (Oxford University Press: New York), and (2) Magical Mystery Tour: A Beatles Perspective on the Long and Winding Road of Life (GIA Publications: Chicago, IL).
Prior to his appointment at USF, Dr. Randles taught general music and band in the public schools of Michigan for nine years. He has written arrangements and original compositions that have been performed by both marching bands and children’s choruses. He currently enjoys playing guitar, mandolin, accordion, and Maschine for every opportunity that arises.