Music Academician
His North Texas master's thesis, The Development of a Curriculum for the Teaching of Dance Music at the College Level, (1944) served as the basis for the nation's first university-level curriculum for the study of jazz (named "Dance Band" at the time), established at then North Texas State Teachers College in 1947, when he formally joined the North Texas faculty to develop dance band study as part of the regular curriculum. Hall, in 1954, earned a PhD in education from New York University.
Dr. Hall resigned from the North Texas in 1959 to continue similar work at Michigan State University. Leon Breeden, who had been director of bands for five years at Texas Christian University, succeeded Dr. Hall.
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