{"title":"Imposter syndrome: A case study on the experiences and perspectives of a teenage feminist indie band","authors":"Lloyd McArton","doi":"10.1386/jpme_00082_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00082_1","url":null,"abstract":"This research article features the perspectives of two young women who create and perform as an indie band together. Their stories demonstrate a stark contrast between their relative success in this early stage of their career and the obstacles that they continue to face. Linked to an underlying feeling of imposter syndrome, they reveal an ongoing struggle with confidence as musicians, resentment of the gentrification and closure of music venues, unsupportive high school teachers and administration and age-related barriers to the indie music scene. Encounters with sexism and ageism within the music scene and industry allude to systemic issues resulting in a dearth of musical spaces in which young artists can participate safely. Through interrogation of existing pathways to musical experiences and deeper understanding of young artists and their experiences within these avenues, attention to these discrepancies is critical in all settings of music education.","PeriodicalId":156745,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Education","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127024808","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":"Music Business Careers: Career Duality in the Creative Industries, Cheryl Slay Carr (2019)","authors":"Sol Elisa Martinez Missena","doi":"10.1386/jpme_00090_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00090_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Music Business Careers: Career Duality in the Creative Industries, Cheryl Slay Carr (2019)\u0000New York and London: Routledge, 220 pp.,\u0000ISBN 978-1-13848-227-2, p/bk, $37.56","PeriodicalId":156745,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Education","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121343072","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":"‘Spectaculars’ and the study of popular musicking","authors":"Claire M. Anderson","doi":"10.1386/jpme_00081_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00081_1","url":null,"abstract":"In US popular music textbooks, women’s contributions are often relegated to the margins. This is not because women have been absent from popular music history, but because music scholarship leans towards the study of formal structures and technical ability and away from the emotional or embodied components of music. I advocate for a shift towards studies in popular musicking, both in scholarship and in the classroom. I argue that an emphasis on spectacular performances – collaborative events designed to awe and entertain and which incorporate many elements of musicking – will open doors for discussions of more women artists and artist fanbases largely made up of young women. With an examination of two such spectaculars, I show how music analysis can include extramusical components such as dance, audience, stage presence and even costumes. The study of popular musicking creates space for more women’s stories in scholarship and the classroom.","PeriodicalId":156745,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129472201","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":"‘Girls and Women in Popular Music Education’","authors":"P. Campbell","doi":"10.1386/jpme_00080_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00080_2","url":null,"abstract":"Guest Editor Patricia Shehan Campbell introduces this Special Issue of the Journal of Popular Music Education focusing on ‘Girls and Women in Popular Music Education’. Campbell briefly sets the scene, articulating something of the urgency of the need to pay more and long overdue attention to women in popular music – both in and for popular music education. Campbell introduces articles by each of the authors featured in this Special Issue, outlining the thrust and key points in each case. She introduces Claire Anderson’s article on spectaculars; Lloyd McArton’s paper on Toronto indie musicians; Clayton Dahm’s writing on Malian musician Oumou Sangaré; Kelsey Guo and Mari Shiobara’s piece about the enduring appeal of Teresa Teng; J. Michael Kohfeld’s article about LGBTQ+ representation in college music curricula; Carol Shansky’s article on well-known harmonica players; Ailbhe Kenny’s study of African migrant DJs in Ireland; and Juliana Cantarelli Vita’s paper about the Brazilian ensemble, Dita Curva.","PeriodicalId":156745,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Education","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128260256","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":"Natural, tender and unstrained: Teresa Teng in Chinese and Japanese music education","authors":"Ke Guo, M. Shiobara","doi":"10.1386/jpme_00084_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00084_1","url":null,"abstract":"As a popular icon across several cultures in East and South East Asia, Teresa Teng demonstrated and promoted natural, tender and unstrained aesthetics for beautiful singing. Although never included in either Chinese or Japanese formal music education curricula, Teng’s music provided an alternative for people to express their emotions outside of school music education and gradually influenced the aesthetic standard for singing in music education for generations. Through historical and cultural reporting, as well as an autobiographical narration, this article explores the significant influence of Teresa Teng in Chinese and Japanese music education realms from the late twentieth century until today.","PeriodicalId":156745,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129401644","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":"The rise of sound girls: Expect, empower, energize, educate","authors":"Patrice DeVincentis","doi":"10.1386/jpme_00089_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00089_1","url":null,"abstract":"The fact that fields of music production and recording arts have been noticeably male-dominated has not gone unnoticed. Progress for women in these fields has been slow and difficult at best. Current statistics demonstrate that the change in gender percentages over the past decade has been insignificant. The lack of female professionals in the music and audio fields has been the subject of studies for over 40 years. Females interested in the audio industry have often faced with adversity and challenges. This article examines real-world experiences of females in the audio industry and considers what educators can do to foster greater gender equality.","PeriodicalId":156745,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Education","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129716396","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":"Contextualizing the music and politics of Oumou Sangaré","authors":"L. Dahm","doi":"10.1386/jpme_00083_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00083_1","url":null,"abstract":"Oumou Sangaré has used her voice to take on local political and social issues over her 30-plus-year career as a singer. However, those stances can be lost on global listeners who lack emic understandings of Sangaré’s context – the local music and politics of Wassoulou. Scholars in music education note the importance of contextualizing the musical cultures introduced to students, and this issue is paramount if the inclusion of world music is to be a decolonizing praxis. Considering the music of Oumou Sangaré, this article demonstrates that while metadata (lyrics, translations, interviews, profiles and media) can be found to teach and contextualize Sangaré’s music in the classroom, information on contemporary musicians is not always easily accessible in the digital and streaming age of music mediation. Further work is needed to provide music educators with increased access to this critical information for including world music and musicians in curricula.","PeriodicalId":156745,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Education","volume":"200 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132837804","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":"Women sounding out: Listening for queerness in folk and popular music of the United States","authors":"J. M. Kohfeld","doi":"10.1386/jpme_00085_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00085_1","url":null,"abstract":"Folk music and other popular styles associated with rural regions of the United States appear to be unlikely places to find lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and other gender/sexual minorities (LGBTQ+). Consequently, teaching folk music of the United States with attention to diversity, equity and inclusion can be challenging for music educators. In this article, I use Yves Bonenfant’s notion of ‘queer listening’ to discuss queer genders and sexualities in folk and popular music, applying the framework to three songs by women artists: Tracy Chapman’s ‘For My Lover’, the Indigo Girls’ ‘Closer to Fine’ and Amythyst Kiah’s version of ‘Black Myself’. By treating queerness as a ‘doing’ rather than a ‘being’, queer narratives of oppression, survival, resilience and triumph in folk music can be discussed in the music classroom with greater nuance in relation to history, performance and reception.","PeriodicalId":156745,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Education","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129490358","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":"The politics is in the drums: Producing and composing in the music classroom","authors":"E. Hein","doi":"10.1386/jpme_00070_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00070_1","url":null,"abstract":"Music technology courses are increasingly common offerings in university and secondary music programmes. Curriculum standards, subject matter and classroom practices of these courses are still very much in flux. The music education field therefore has a unique opportunity to shape and define music technology as a subject before it becomes fully standardized. Teaching this subject in the context of European-descended ‘art’ music traditions will perpetuate the white racial frame of school music. The author argues that educators should critically examine the racialized split between ‘art’ and ‘popular’ forms of electronic music, and should consciously centre ‘the Black Electronic’ in their curricula. This includes the techniques of beatmaking and sampling, as well as their cultural and political contexts and meanings. An example project drawing on hip hop methods and values is presented.","PeriodicalId":156745,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Education","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130124541","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":"College music administrators’ opinions of curricular initiatives in popular music","authors":"V. Davis, D. Hewitt","doi":"10.1386/jpme_00069_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jpme_00069_1","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined college music administrators’ attitudes towards popular music in tertiary settings. Participants (N = 92) completed a Likert-type scale survey that solicited administrators’ overall attitude towards popular music education, coursework and degree plans. Additionally, data were collected through written comments regarding challenges to implementing curricular changes. Descriptive data revealed that administrators’ overall attitudes towards popular music and its inclusion in higher education settings are mostly positive. Participants’ responses to open-ended questions revealed that limited resources, budgetary concerns and pressure to have fewer credits in degree programmes are challenges to curricular changes that include more popular music opportunities. With these findings, we suggest that while college music administrators may be in favour of popular music initiatives in higher education, the ways in which they can be enacted through curricula will vary based on the unique opportunities and challenges at each institution.","PeriodicalId":156745,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Education","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126035921","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}