Places and Purposes of Popular Music Education

Acknowledgements xi



Introduction xiii



Gareth Dylan Smith and Bryan Powell



PART I: BEYOND THE CLASSROOM 1



1. 'Something to Talk About': Intersections of Music, Memory, Dialogue and Pedagogy at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 5



Jason Hanley



2. Learning to be Active: The Formative Power of Music as a Catalyst for Political Activism 11



Stuart Moir



3. Mariachi Master-Apprentice Program: Familia During the COVID-19 Pandemic 17



Sergio Alonso



4. People and Popular Music in an English Prison: Transforming Criminal Justice 24



Natalie Betts



5. Popular Music Pedagogy in a United States Prison: Lessons from a Western Rural Facility 30



Tiger Robison



6. Developing a Certifiable and Relevant Popular Music Curriculum for Early School-Leavers in Ireland 34



Martin Ryan



7. Project Gametime: Hip-Hop and After-School Programmes 40



Kenrick Wagner



8. In Conversation with Eleanor Rashid, Music Practitioner 43



Eleanor Rashid and Gareth Dylan Smith



9. Reciprocal Benefits of Music Cities and Modern Band 46



Bryce Merril and Tom Scharf



10. Berklee City Music Programme: Teaching and Learning Through Contemporary Popular Music 52



Krystal Prime Banfield



11. A New Generation: An Intrinsic Case Study of a Club DJ's Formal Learning Experiences 58



Eva J. Egolf



12. Playing with Vocal Processing Technologies: Fostering Interaction with Children with Special Educational Needs 63



Roshi Nasehi



13. The Oneonta Hip Hop Collective: Students Owning the Moment 68



Joseph Michael Pignato



14. Rockway and Formal-Informal Online Music Learning in Finland 74



Niklas Lindholm



15. How Do We Get Girls and Non-Binary Students to Play Guitar Solos? 79



Kayla Rush



16. Learning to Become a Band, Learning Popular Music 85



Tobias Malm



17. Popular Music is Not the Answer 90



Abigail D'Amore



PART II: IDENTITY AND PURPOSE 97



18. Life as a Cabaret: Singing Our Ideal Self into Being 101



Felix Graham



19. My Therapist Said It's FINE: The Duality of Being a Music(ian) Teacher 107



Sheena Dhamsania



20. Pursuing Popular Music Shapes Me as a Scholar, Musician and Human 110



Christopher Cayari



21. I've Learned Three Chords. Now What? 115



Roger Mantie



22. Intersections and Roundabouts: Connecting In-School and Out-of-School Experiences to Teaching Practices 120



Steve Holley



23. Different from the Norm: Teaching Band in Alabama 126



Shane Colquhoun



24. Popular Music Education as a Place for Emergent Pedagogies 131



Meghan K. Sheehy



25. Think Big, Start Small: Enacting Change in Higher Education 137



Martina Vasil



26. Becoming a Popular Music Educator: A Personal Journey 142



Matthew Clauhs



27. Confessions of a Deadhead Music Educator: Connecting Worlds 148



James Frankel



28. A Personal Journey with Popular Music in Paraguay 153



Sol Elisa Martinez Missena



29. From Bowing my Double Bass to Pushing My Push: A Swedish Journey from Music Education to Popular Music Educator 157



Erik Lundahl



30. From A. R. Rahman to Ed Sheeran: How Informal Learning Practices can Inform Music Teaching 162



Shree Lakshmi Vaidyanathan



31. What's Words Worth: A Short Polemic on the Citation of Lyric 168



Andy West



32. Inclusion or Exclusion? The Disconnect Between School Music Programmes and Students' Lived Musical Experiences 171



Aixa Burgos



33. Finding Her Voice: A Female DIY Musician's Pedagogical Spaces and Practices for Popular Tamil Film Music in Chennai, South India 175



Nina Menezes



34. Teaching Queer 182



Mia Ibrahim



35. Computer Science && Popular Music Education 187



Jared O'Leary



36. We Are Music Technology (and How to Change Us) 192



adam patrick bell



37. Connecting Black Youth to Critical Media Literacy Through Hip-Hop Making in the Music Classroom 198



Jabari Evans



PART III: HIGHER EDUCATION 203



38. Crushed by the Wheels of Industry 207



Martin Isherwood



39. Towards Popular Music Education as an Institutional Norm 213



Lloyd McArton



40. Ideological Extrojection: The De-Neoliberalization of UK Music Education 219



Jason Huxtable



41. On the Pulse of Change Through Popular Music Nourishing Teachers' Professional Identities 225



Siew Ling Chua



42. The Conservatory as Exploratory 230



Richard Smith



43. Is Higher Popular Music Education Still Relevant? 235



Gemma Hill



44. Music Teacher Education in the United States is Failing its Students 239



Candice Davenport Mattio



45. Imagining a Credential for Music Technology Education 245



Daniel Walzer



46. The Price of Admission: Amateurism, Serious Leisure and the Faculty Band 250



Virginia Wayman Davis



47. Vocal Diversity and Evolving Contemporary Voice Pedagogy 256



Ana Flavia Zuim



48. Student and Tutor Life Worlds and Impossible Standards in Higher Popular Music Education 261



Hussein Boon



49. Places and Spaces of Popular Music Production Pedagogy in Higher Education 267



Brendan Anthony



50. Fostering a Sense of Belonging in the Recruitment of Underrepresented Students at Purdue University 273



James Dekle



51. Awakening Spirituality in Brazilian Higher Music Education 279



Heloisa Feichas



52. Embracing Innocence, Uncertainty and Presence in Popular Music Performance 285



Jay Stapley



53. How I Relearned to Give a Shit 290



David Knapp



PART IV: POLITICS AND IDEOLOGY 297



54. We Are Not Neutral: Popular Music Education, Creativity and the Active Creation of a Graduate Precariat 301



Zack Moir



55. Toward the Political Philosophy of Hip-Hop Education and Positive Energy in China 307



Wai-Chung Ho



56. Structural and Cultural Barriers to Relevant Popular Music Education in India 314



Nilesh Thomas and Saurav Ghosh



57. Popular Music Education as a Liberating Education 320



Flavia Narita



58. Young, Gifted and Black Q.U.E.E.N.: Nuancing Black Feminist Thought within Music Education 326



Jasmine Hines



59. Decolonizing Higher Music Education: Person Versus Persona 332



Adriel E. Miles



60. My Vision for Popular Music Education 338



Nathan Holder



61. External Examining: An Insider Perspective on a Neocolonial Practice 343



Gareth Dylan Smith



62. Cripping Popular Music Education 349



Jesse Rathgeber



63. Excessive Pedagogical Moments: A Deaf-Gay Intersectional Duet 355



Warren Churchill



64. Race, Caste, American Democracy and Popular Music Education 361



David Wish



65. The Problem of Conversion in Music Teacher Education in the United States 367



Radio Cremata



66. Expanding the Reach of Music Education through Modern Band 373



Scott R. Sheehan



67. Lessons from Community Music and Music Therapy: Beyond Familiar Comparisons 378



Bryan Powell



68. Adolescence, Education and Citizenship: Tracing Intersecting Histories and Reimagining Popular Music Pedagogies 383



Noah Karvelis



69. #SongsOfBlackLivesMatter: Co-creating and Developing an Activist Music Education Praxis Alongside Youth 389



Martin Urbach



70. From Black Lives Matter to Black Music Matters: Crossing the Rhetorical Divide 396



Ed Sarath



Notes on Contributors 399



Index 411