{"title":"JPME and APME in 2024 and beyond","authors":"G. Smith, Jarelys Zamora-Pasquier, Bryan Powell","doi":"10.1386/jpme_00132_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00132_2","url":null,"abstract":"In this essay, the editorial team for the Journal of Popular Music Education (JPME) introduces the first issue of the journal’s eighth volume (2024). The authors provide a summary of the JPME contents from the previous year (2023, volume 7) and highlight the two Special Issues from that volume. One Special Issue was a belated 25th anniversary response to Paul Théberge’s landmark book, Any Sound You Can Imagine, and the other was dedicated to contemporary considerations around music technology pertaining to popular music education. The authors acknowledge the privilege of publishing and of engaging in scholarship amidst a world in turmoil. They then look forward to conferences taking place in 2024, including the first gathering of the Association for Popular Music Education outside of the United States, in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the summer. The editorial closes by outlining the topic foci of two forthcoming JPME Special Issues in 2024.","PeriodicalId":156745,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Education","volume":"80 s20","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140401698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modernizing music programmes in higher education with popular music: Students’ preparation for music employment","authors":"Christin Foley Smith, Russell Brodie","doi":"10.1386/jpme_00131_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00131_1","url":null,"abstract":"This qualitative study explored the need to modernize music programmes in higher education with popular music to prepare graduates for twenty-first-century employment. Researchers agreed that popular music studies will allow students to gain valuable knowledge and use their degree in complex systems in various music professions. This study utilized Tyler’s Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction Rationale Model to discover what students need to be successful in a music career, with consideration of modern-day influences and popular music. Ten interviews were conducted with professionals in various music careers to raise awareness of music employment and the need for change in higher education to support life post-graduation. The findings showed a consensus that popular music should be added to the music curriculum. Future research recommendations include surveying students regarding their musical interests and influences, implementing popular music within the traditional curriculum and application-based learning.","PeriodicalId":156745,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Education","volume":" 78","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139793022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modernizing music programmes in higher education with popular music: Students’ preparation for music employment","authors":"Christin Foley Smith, Russell Brodie","doi":"10.1386/jpme_00131_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00131_1","url":null,"abstract":"This qualitative study explored the need to modernize music programmes in higher education with popular music to prepare graduates for twenty-first-century employment. Researchers agreed that popular music studies will allow students to gain valuable knowledge and use their degree in complex systems in various music professions. This study utilized Tyler’s Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction Rationale Model to discover what students need to be successful in a music career, with consideration of modern-day influences and popular music. Ten interviews were conducted with professionals in various music careers to raise awareness of music employment and the need for change in higher education to support life post-graduation. The findings showed a consensus that popular music should be added to the music curriculum. Future research recommendations include surveying students regarding their musical interests and influences, implementing popular music within the traditional curriculum and application-based learning.","PeriodicalId":156745,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Education","volume":"118 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139852826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Problematizing prescriptive methods in popular music education: Neo-liberalism, care and Little Kids Rock/Music Will","authors":"K. Bylica, Jonathan Edan Dillon","doi":"10.1386/jpme_00121_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00121_1","url":null,"abstract":"Music Will/Little Kids Rock has been a key player in the growth of K-12 popular music education in the United States. The purpose of this article is to critically consider the material designed for curricular and instructional use by Little Kids Rock through a critical content analysis of publicly available resources and reports. We examine this material through dual lenses of care and neo-liberalism, as care has been framed as a counternarrative to neo-liberal discourse. Three key themes emerged during data analysis: hero narratives, mix-and-match aims and complex negotiations with neo-liberal values. We close by suggesting that attention be paid to the ways in which methods and practices that may seem to thwart hegemonic norms are often fraught with complexity, and we encourage continued critical reads of educational programming and curricula.","PeriodicalId":156745,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Education","volume":"36 23","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139452277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Working with a quarterly wheel: Modern music making in short-term classes","authors":"Anna Horldt","doi":"10.1386/jpme_00119_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00119_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article details a route of using digital music in a wheel setting for students in secondary school (ages 11 and up). Students worked on song writing, group compositions, presentation skills, creating album artwork, autobiographies and more in a short, seven-week-long class setting. Using digital music in the wheel helped to ensure that music making was accessible, the experience was interactive and inclusive, and gave students an outlet they were excited to come to class for. This wheel was part of the school’s ‘applied academics’, which allowed students to rotate through different classes and electives. Digital music was a small part of applied academics, but had one of the biggest impacts on the students.","PeriodicalId":156745,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Education","volume":"7 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139148652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"#Trending: Environmental perception in US higher music education","authors":"Jacob Hertzog","doi":"10.1386/jpme_00117_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00117_1","url":null,"abstract":"This study measured the environmental perception (EP) of higher music education in the United States through the Higher Music Education Organizational Adaptation Survey. Music leaders were surveyed (n = 100) using items adapted from EP research in other disciplines. Diverse music units were found to exhibit moderate levels of EP and organizational complexity was found to be a significant factor in EP level. This study is highly significant for academic leaders in music due to the rapid evolution of the music industry and the need for higher music education to understand the complexity of its environment. Results also hold significance for all creative fields in higher education as a measurement of the relationship between academia and industry.","PeriodicalId":156745,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Education","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132572393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Any Sound You Can Imagine: Then and now","authors":"Paul Théberge","doi":"10.1386/jpme_00115_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00115_1","url":null,"abstract":"During the 25 years since the publication of my book, Any Sound You Can Imagine: Making Music/Consuming Technology , a number of technological developments and theoretical trends have emerged: among them, the integration of music production within Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) platforms, and the rise of social media as a means for information sharing among musicians, on the one hand; and the emergence, in popular music studies, of practice-based and community-oriented forms of music research and pedagogy, on the other. In addition, new technologies and applications of artificial intelligence (AI) have begun to have an impact on music-making and listening at every level. These developments are discussed in relation to theoretical issues of innovation, production, consumption and gender found in my previous work and, more specifically, in relation to concerns raised in a number of articles in the present volume, using them as a springboard for further reflection and theorizing.","PeriodicalId":156745,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Education","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135194866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Empowering neighbourhood music: Leveraging professional recording studio and entrepreneurial strategies in a minority Title 1 school1","authors":"Donald DeVito, José Valentino Ruiz","doi":"10.1386/jpme_00116_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00116_1","url":null,"abstract":"To reimagine pedagogy, creativity and learning in popular music education, various interdisciplinary theories and models of culture and musical practice can be mobilized. One such approach is the ‘professional recording studio’ (PRS) pedagogical approach. This focuses on developing students’ artistic identities through culturally relevant local neighbourhood music in a school with a low socio-economic status and a 99 per cent minority population. The PRS approach incorporates a wide range of music, including traditional music from the predominantly Black community and student compositions that incorporate local rhythms, riffs and playground music. By giving a voice to the underserved community, this approach aims to empower students and connect their musical experiences with their cultural heritage. The PRS approach can be examined through the lens of facilitated teaching approaches found in the field of community music and community arts entrepreneurialism.","PeriodicalId":156745,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Education","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135194874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diverse instrument symphonic ensembles: Making sustainable music amid unsustainable situations","authors":"Jason Palamara","doi":"10.1386/jpme_00113_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00113_1","url":null,"abstract":"Music technology-focused ensembles such laptop orchestras have become mainstays at higher education institutions. Nevertheless, the perpetual innovation inherent in the mandate of such a group presents some unique challenges in the post-pandemic academic landscape. In the post-COVID period of supply chain breakdowns and budget-obsessed administrations, building an ensemble focused on technology may become prohibitively expensive. As traditional music departments struggle with lower enrolment, expanding large ensembles to include a more diverse corpus of instruments would solve multiple problems. Assuming the challenges inherent in starting such groups could be overcome, ensembles that expand their instrumental diversity could allow for innovative study, increase enrolment and even save the host institution much-needed funds. The author groups extant technology-focused musical ensembles into categories by their focus and then proposes a novel category featuring intentionally diverse instrumentation, which may solve many of the problems associated with funding such groups while increasing and diversifying enrolment.","PeriodicalId":156745,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Education","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135194871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Any sound you can imagine? The Bedroom Producer, creativity and popular music education","authors":"Paul Thompson","doi":"10.1386/jpme_00114_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00114_1","url":null,"abstract":"Since the publication of Paul Théberge’s seminal book Any Sound You Can Imagine: Making Music/Consuming Technology (1997), a series of multifaceted, interrelated and co-dependent technical, economic, social, cultural and musical changes have contributed to the emergence of a distinct role of music-maker that could be termed ‘the Bedroom Producer’ (although as long as Bedroom Producers have the correct equipment, then the location of their music production activity is immaterial). This article explores the creative context of the Bedroom Producer and analyses the co-current, interactive spheres of music-making that they engage with. These analyses show that are important implications for educators working within popular music education (PME) and the article introduces some of the ways in which educators can use contemporary educational approaches to take account of the creative process in teaching and learning.","PeriodicalId":156745,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Education","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135194865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}