A Student-Veteran’s Experience with Higher Education: The Musical Support

A Student-Veteran’s Experience With Higher Education: The Musical Support

This is the third book in the S-VwHE series. It focuses on the importance of music support during your academic journey. Your music support system is not just from one source. Music support is available in nature sounds, or found in classical or romantic music. Music support comes in individuality and in groups. Music support is not only music therapy but includes music therapy as a resource. The author discusses 432 Hz-based music, white noise, and pink noise and their applications.

The author’s research into the availability of music support for PTSD is personal and informative. He shares new stories and literature with the hope that other student-veterans will read his story and be encouraged in their decision to move forward in their academic lives. He also hopes that educators discover what it is like to be a student-veteran and can facilitate success in their classrooms.

There are unique challenges for student-veterans in the academic world, but through good times and bad, this story demonstrates that it is all worth it. Peppi helped a lot, too!

Dr. Peter Joseph Burke retired from the US Army in 1996 after serving with the 7th Infantry Division (Light), the 25th Infantry Division (Light), the 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), and the US Field Artillery Training Center, Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. He earned his BM in Horn Performance and MA in Teaching from Cameron University. He received his Master of Music Education in Instrumental Conducting from the University of Oklahoma in May 2011. He received his doctorate in education leadership from Northcentral University in 2021. At Cameron University, he was an Active Member of the Zeta Tau Chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi from 1997-2001 and served as Vice-President for the 2000-2001 and the 2010-2011 school years and as President from 2011-2012. He performed in numerous performing ensembles, instrumentally and vocally, including the Concert Band, Opera, the CU Jazz Ensemble, and the “Pick-Axe” Band. While at the University of Oklahoma, he performed in the Symphonic Band and the OU Hornsemble and was an Active Member of the Delta Chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi. He has also served as a conductor of the OU Hornsemble. As a composer, he had two movements in his poem for Deanne, which the OU Orchestra read. In 1996, Mr. Burke retired as an Army Bandsman, conductor, and performer. SGT Burke has been deployed to Thailand, Korea, Japan, Brunei, the Philippines, Australia, and many others. His notable performances include the funeral for Ellison Onizuka, the Challenger astronaut who died on launch, the Prince of Thailand’s birthday, visits from Heads of State, and the New York City Victory Parade after Operation Desert Storm. Mr. Burke has also shared the stage with performers such as Richard Todd, Jonny Highland, Frank Mantooth, Arthur Lipner, the Royal Thailand Army Band, the Band of Her Majesty’s Coldstream Guard, and Woody Herman. Mr. Burke is affiliated with ASCAP, Student Veterans of America, and is a Life Member of Kappa Kappa Psi.