This article explores the evolving role of facilitators in popular music education contexts,
building on research in music education related to a range of topics such as calls for reform …

Sociology for Music Teachers: Practical Applications, Second Edition, outlines the basic
concepts relevant to understanding music teaching and learning from a sociological …

One way to critique popular music education (PME) would be to ask what good or successful
PME might look like. A successful education may, for instance, lead to agency …

Burrows (dance, California), Jensen (drama, Utah), and Patton and Buffington (visual arts,
Virginia)—who offer an enthusiastic insider perspective on what the new media arts …

This chapter analyzes ways in which punk and hip-hop cultivate pedagogies of comedic
dissidence as means to encourage collective discussions of political and social issues. The …

The drum kit is a musical instrument comprising various items of percussion. It is ubiquitous
in popular music (the majority of music produced and consumed by contemporary society) …

Popular music policy is political. Not in the (largely meaningless) sense that 'everything is
political', but rather in the sense that popular music policy involves the allocation of prized …

Unfreezing Music Education argues that discussing the conflicting meanings of music
should occupy a more central role in formal music education and music teacher preparation …

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 …

In this study I explore and develop a theory and ethic of hospitality through an instrumental
case study of a middle school band program. I begin by presenting a poststructural view of …