{"title":"Hong Kong popular music education and its (dis)contents","authors":"Y. Chu","doi":"10.1386/jpme_00112_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00112_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents some of the data gathered in a study on popular music education in Hong Kong, which was marginalized in local schools until recently. The study was conducted between April and December 2021 to explore possible policies that could promote Hong Kong popular music via education. It adopted a mixed-method design that consisted of a survey questionnaire, ten in-depth, semi-structured interviews with popular music education stakeholders and fifteen focus-group interviews with participants in various popular music education programmes. While the research findings are based on a small amount of data about a short period, from them I hope to offer a modest suggestion on how to draft policies that promote Hong Kong popular music, a genre that is generally agreed to be declining in the new millennium, through education in the future.","PeriodicalId":156745,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Education","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122923290","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":"Musical engagement at any cost? Community music leaders’ embrace of technology-enabled music-making during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Fiona Evison","doi":"10.1386/jpme_00109_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00109_1","url":null,"abstract":"In an alternative universe to popular music (PM) education, many community music (CM) educators turned to technology during unprecedented pandemic disruptions, attempting to maintain group music-making and social connections. This study investigates CM technology-aided pandemusicking, drawing from case studies of twelve Canadian leaders, and finding that music fields, values and goals were blurred. These leaders often used recorded and live internet music-making, which required adopting digital technologies that align more closely with PM fields than their traditional practices. Pandemusicking was often a difficult solution, but leaders were aided by increased consumption and skill-partnerships. Nuanced considerations from literature on media culture counter utopian rhetoric about tech-enabled democracy, consumption and participation while prompting reflections on broader implications of a technological world that leaves some music participants and educators behind. This outcome has vital implications for leaders with inclusive goals, who work with wide age ranges, and it suggests potential roles of PM education and educators.","PeriodicalId":156745,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Education","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128266036","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":"Environmentalism in popular music education: A critical pedagogy and Students as Partners approach","authors":"Donna Weston, Leah Coutts","doi":"10.1386/jpme_00111_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00111_1","url":null,"abstract":"In the face of looming environmental catastrophe, music educators have an obligation to support students in finding ways to navigate and respond to environmental change through their practice. Data from a survey of popular music students in an Australian higher music education institution showed that while students held serious concerns about environmental threats, they did not feel empowered to address these through their music and could not envisage a role for music education to support them to do so. It is proposed that a praxial pedagogical framework informed by critical pedagogy, and supported through the Students as Partners approach, would help popular music students to develop their musician activist identities and empower them to respond to the challenges of a changing climate through their art.","PeriodicalId":156745,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Education","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134923108","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":"A place for TPACK in popular music education: A review of existing literature","authors":"Alyssa Campanini","doi":"10.1386/jpme_00108_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00108_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article is a synthesis of literature pertaining to the connections of music technology and popular music education. Music technology has become a vehicle through which music educators address the inclusion of popular music practices into existing models of music education. Making these connections has proven useful and engaging but has also helped to illuminate issues regarding technology and popular music training at the pre-service and in-service levels. Through a discussion of the role of technology in popular music education pedagogy, current collegiate curricular offerings and current professional development offerings, I argue that the inclusion of the technological pedagogical and content knowledge framework is necessary to prepare pre-service and in-service music educators to embrace popular music pedagogies. Drawing from the research conducted in various contexts, the following literature review is geared towards the music education paradigm in the United States. In the concluding section, I suggest avenues for future research and implications for pre-service and in-service music education practices.","PeriodicalId":156745,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Education","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122291585","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":"Modern vocal pedagogy: Investigating a potential curricular framework for training popular music singing teachers","authors":"Joanna Sear","doi":"10.1386/jpme_00105_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00105_1","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores the content and pertinence of a curricular framework for training popular music (PM) singing teachers. The author conducted three extensive literature review studies over two years via an action research framework to investigate common areas of interest for potential pedagogical strategy. She developed a draft curricular topic framework, incorporating five PM-specific areas: vocal health and hygiene, PM stylistic advice, microphones/audio technology, resonance and breathing technique. Five international PM voice teaching representatives took part in the research as focus group participants and provided feedback on the curriculum content. Data from this feedback were analysed in an iterative cycle process and adjustments suggested. Findings from this study indicate that such a curriculum would be both necessary and timely. Suggestions were made to amend some elements and to place greater emphasis on aesthetic artistry, cultural context and emotional intent.","PeriodicalId":156745,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Education","volume":"215 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132018277","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":"Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies in Music Education: Expanding Culturally Responsive Teaching to Sustain Diverse Musical Cultures and Identities, Emily Good-Perkins (2021)","authors":"Jonathan Edan Dillon","doi":"10.1386/jpme_00103_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00103_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies in Music Education: Expanding Culturally Responsive Teaching to Sustain Diverse Musical Cultures and Identities, Emily Good-Perkins (2021)\u0000 New York and London: Routledge, 159 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978-0-36756-819-1, h/bk, $170.00\u0000 ISBN 978-0-36756-822-1, p/bk, $52.95\u0000 ISBN 978-1-00309-947-5, e-book, $52.95","PeriodicalId":156745,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Education","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117150392","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":"Developing fieldwork experiences in popular music: Reflections and opportunities","authors":"Jonathan Kladder, Ian Cummings","doi":"10.1386/jpme_00106_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00106_1","url":null,"abstract":"In music teacher education in the United States, fieldwork experiences are often required for teacher certification and historically served as a platform for preservice music teachers to develop content and pedagogical knowledge as they transition to being professional music teachers. Instrumental music education fieldwork experiences remain largely siloed in band and orchestra contexts, while limited researchers have sought to investigate popular music education (PME) fieldwork experiences. As a duoethnography, this article highlights the lived experiences of two popular music educators in the creation of a new popular music fieldwork experience in a small town in the northeastern region of the United States. The authors suggest expanding undergraduate music education to include learner-led and democratic teaching practices in PME classrooms and increase popular music pedagogies in music teacher preparation curricula.","PeriodicalId":156745,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Education","volume":"123 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122558111","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":"Fitting in and sticking out: An exploratory study of the Whiteness of the school music curriculum and its effects on Global Majority musicians","authors":"Natasha Hendry","doi":"10.1386/jpme_00107_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00107_1","url":null,"abstract":"This exploratory study followed the journeys of eleven Global Majority teachers and musicians from their early experiences within the UK music education system up to their present professional careers in music. Focus groups with ten students presently engaged in music education offered a current perspective and comparison with adults’ experiences, allowing for reflection on possible trajectories. The research question asked whether a predominantly White, middle-class music curriculum has an effect on the musical behaviours and identity of members of the Global Majority in the United Kingdom. Findings showed that musicians and music teachers had experienced considerable barriers in music education and musical careers, which had an adverse psychological effect, typically recognized later in life.","PeriodicalId":156745,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Education","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115814889","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":"Motivations and expectations of higher popular music education in Scotland: Student perspectives","authors":"Aidan Harvey","doi":"10.1386/jpme_00100_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00100_1","url":null,"abstract":"This research investigates the motivations of students and their expectations of the aims and content of undergraduate popular music programmes in Scotland. With a particular interest in the pedagogical issues surrounding the familiar ideological debate in PME of ‘training versus education’, this work also further explores the connection between student perceptions of higher popular music education with their formative musical and social experiences. A variety of sociopolitical factors seem to be at play in the development of these expectations and motivations, which are often linked to students’ formative music education and social experiences. Findings further highlight a perception among students of a fundamental dichotomy between the music industries and music education, raising further questions of if, and how student attitudes should influence curricula design at both HE and secondary school-level going forward.","PeriodicalId":156745,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Education","volume":"66 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120996686","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}
Esther M. Morgan-Ellis, Abigail Marvel, Andrew Malphurs
{"title":"Appalachian after-school music programmes as cultural intervention","authors":"Esther M. Morgan-Ellis, Abigail Marvel, Andrew Malphurs","doi":"10.1386/jpme_00101_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00101_1","url":null,"abstract":"In the Southern Appalachians, five after-school programmes of varying sizes – Junior Appalachian Musicians, Young Appalachian Musicians, Georgia Pick and Bow, Hindman Pick and Bow and Appalshop’s Passing the Pick and Bow – offer education in regional music traditions to school-aged children. These programmes fulfil a valuable mission, for they often serve students who have no other opportunities to pursue a music education. As many of the names suggest, these programmes provide training in the instruments, practices and repertoire associated with old-time and bluegrass music, and they typically advertise a preservationist mission. This article considers the cultural intervention work of Appalachian after-school music programmes, positioning them as the latest in a series of interventionist projects that have shaped Appalachian music in an effort to preserve it. Through careful consideration of the styles, instruments and repertoire being taught, we address the ways in which after-school programmes ‘edit’ Appalachian musical heritage for a new generation of participants, and we consider the implications of the programmes’ pedagogical practices.","PeriodicalId":156745,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Education","volume":"1 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126149156","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}