Places and Purposes of Popular Music Education

Dr. Bryan Powell is an assistant professor of Music Education and Music Technology at Montclair State University, USA. Bryan is the founding co-editor of Journal of Popular Music Education and the executive director of the Association for Popular Music Education.Gareth Dylan Smith is assistant professor of Music, Music Education at Boston University, USA, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses. Gareth plays drums with Stephen Wheel, Build a Fort, the Eruptörs and Black Light Bastards; he writes about drumming and eudaimonia, and is founding co-editor of the Journal of Popular Music Education.

• Acknowledgements xiIntroduction xiiiGareth Dylan Smith and Bryan PowellPART I: BEYOND THE CLASSROOM 11. ‘Something to Talk About’: Intersections of Music, Memory, Dialogue and Pedagogy at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 5Jason Hanley2. Learning to be Active: The Formative Power of Music as a Catalyst for Political Activism 11Stuart Moir3. Mariachi Master-Apprentice Program: Familia During the COVID-19 Pandemic 17Sergio Alonso4. People and Popular Music in an English Prison: Transforming Criminal Justice 24Natalie Betts5. Popular Music Pedagogy in a United States Prison: Lessons from a Western Rural Facility 30Tiger Robison6. Developing a Certifiable and Relevant Popular Music Curriculum for Early School-Leavers in Ireland 34Martin Ryan7. Project Gametime: Hip-Hop and After-School Programmes 40Kenrick Wagner8. In Conversation with Eleanor Rashid, Music Practitioner 43Eleanor Rashid and Gareth Dylan Smith9. Reciprocal Benefits of Music Cities and Modern Band 46Bryce Merril and Tom Scharf10. Berklee City Music Programme: Teaching and Learning Through Contemporary Popular Music 52Krystal Prime Banfield11. A New Generation: An Intrinsic Case Study of a Club DJ’s Formal Learning Experiences 58Eva J. Egolf12. Playing with Vocal Processing Technologies: Fostering Interaction with Children with Special Educational Needs 63Roshi Nasehi13. The Oneonta Hip Hop Collective: Students Owning the Moment 68Joseph Michael Pignato14. Rockway and Formal–Informal Online Music Learning in Finland 74Niklas Lindholm15. How Do We Get Girls and Non-Binary Students to Play Guitar Solos? 79Kayla Rush16. Learning to Become a Band, Learning Popular Music 85Tobias Malm17. Popular Music is Not the Answer 90Abigail D’AmorePART II: IDENTITY AND PURPOSE 9718. Life as a Cabaret: Singing Our Ideal Self into Being 101Felix Graham19. My Therapist Said It’s FINE: The Duality of Being a Music(ian) Teacher 107Sheena Dhamsania20. Pursuing Popular Music Shapes Me as a Scholar, Musician and Human 110Christopher Cayari21. I’ve Learned Three Chords. Now What? 115Roger Mantie22. Intersections and Roundabouts: Connecting In-School and Out-of-School Experiences to Teaching Practices 120Steve Holley23. Different from the Norm: Teaching Band in Alabama 126Shane Colquhoun24. Popular Music Education as a Place for Emergent Pedagogies 131Meghan K. Sheehy25. Think Big, Start Small: Enacting Change in Higher Education 137Martina Vasil26. Becoming a Popular Music Educator: A Personal Journey 142Matthew Clauhs27. Confessions of a Deadhead Music Educator: Connecting Worlds 148James Frankel28. A Personal Journey with Popular Music in Paraguay 153Sol Elisa Martinez Missena29. From Bowing my Double Bass to Pushing My Push: A Swedish Journey from Music Education to Popular Music Educator 157Erik Lundahl30. From A. R. Rahman to Ed Sheeran: How Informal Learning Practices can Inform Music Teaching 162Shree Lakshmi Vaidyanathan31. What’s Words Worth: A Short Polemic on the Citation of Lyric 168Andy West32. Inclusion or Exclusion? The Disconnect Between School Music Programmes and Students’ Lived Musical Experiences 171Aixa Burgos33. Finding Her Voice: A Female DIY Musician’s Pedagogical Spaces and Practices for Popular Tamil Film Music in Chennai, South India 175Nina Menezes34. Teaching Queer 182Mia Ibrahim35. Computer Science && Popular Music Education 187Jared O’Leary36. We Are Music Technology (and How to Change Us) 192adam patrick bell37. Connecting Black Youth to Critical Media Literacy Through Hip-Hop Making in the Music Classroom 198Jabari EvansPART III: HIGHER EDUCATION 20338. Crushed by the Wheels of Industry 207Martin Isherwood39. Towards Popular Music Education as an Institutional Norm 213Lloyd McArton40. Ideological Extrojection: The De-Neoliberalization of UK Music Education 219Jason Huxtable41. On the Pulse of Change Through Popular Music Nourishing Teachers’ Professional Identities 225Siew Ling Chua42. The Conservatory as Exploratory 230Richard Smith43. Is Higher Popular Music Education Still Relevant? 235Gemma Hill44. Music Teacher Education in the United States is Failing its Students 239Candice Davenport Mattio45. Imagining a Credential for Music Technology Education 245Daniel Walzer46. The Price of Admission: Amateurism, Serious Leisure and the Faculty Band 250Virginia Wayman Davis47. Vocal Diversity and Evolving Contemporary Voice Pedagogy 256Ana Flavia Zuim48. Student and Tutor Life Worlds and Impossible Standards in Higher Popular Music Education 261Hussein Boon49. Places and Spaces of Popular Music Production Pedagogy in Higher Education 267Brendan Anthony50. Fostering a Sense of Belonging in the Recruitment of Underrepresented Students at Purdue University 273James Dekle51. Awakening Spirituality in Brazilian Higher Music Education 279Heloisa Feichas52. Embracing Innocence, Uncertainty and Presence in Popular Music Performance 285Jay Stapley53. How I Relearned to Give a Shit 290David KnappPART IV: POLITICS AND IDEOLOGY 29754. We Are Not Neutral: Popular Music Education, Creativity and the Active Creation of a Graduate Precariat 301Zack Moir55. Toward the Political Philosophy of Hip-Hop Education and Positive Energy in China 307Wai-Chung Ho56. Structural and Cultural Barriers to Relevant Popular Music Education in India 314Nilesh Thomas and Saurav Ghosh57. Popular Music Education as a Liberating Education 320Flávia Narita58. Young, Gifted and Black Q.U.E.E.N.: Nuancing Black Feminist Thought within Music Education 326Jasmine Hines59. Decolonizing Higher Music Education: Person Versus Persona 332Adriel E. Miles60. My Vision for Popular Music Education 338Nathan Holder61. External Examining: An Insider Perspective on a Neocolonial Practice 343Gareth Dylan Smith62. Cripping Popular Music Education 349Jesse Rathgeber63. Excessive Pedagogical Moments: A Deaf-Gay Intersectional Duet 355Warren Churchill64. Race, Caste, American Democracy and Popular Music Education 361David Wish65. The Problem of Conversion in Music Teacher Education in the United States 367Radio Cremata66. Expanding the Reach of Music Education through Modern Band 373Scott R. Sheehan67. Lessons from Community Music and Music Therapy: Beyond Familiar Comparisons 378Bryan Powell68. Adolescence, Education and Citizenship: Tracing Intersecting Histories and Reimagining Popular Music Pedagogies 383Noah Karvelis69. #SongsOfBlackLivesMatter: Co-creating and Developing an Activist Music Education Praxis Alongside Youth 389Martin Urbach70. From Black Lives Matter to Black Music Matters: Crossing the Rhetorical Divide 396Ed SarathNotes on Contributors 399Index 411