ABSTRACT
Popular music is a growing presence in education, formal and otherwise, from primary school to postgraduate study. Programmes, courses and modules in popular music studies, popular music performance, songwriting and areas of music technology are becoming commonplace across higher education. Additionally, specialist pop/rock/jazz graded exam syllabi, such as RockSchool and Trinity Rock and Pop, have emerged in recent years, meaning that it is now possible for school leavers in some countries to meet university entry requirements having studied only popular music. In the context of teacher education, classroom teachers and music-specialists alike are becoming increasingly empowered to introduce popular music into their classrooms. At present, research in Popular Music Education lies at the fringes of the fields of music education, ethnomusicology, community music, cultural studies and popular music studies. The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education is the first book-length publication that brings together a diverse range of scholarship in this emerging field. Perspectives include the historical, sociological, pedagogical, musicological, axiological, reflexive, critical, philosophical and ideological.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|30 pages
Introduction
part II|120 pages
Past, present and future
chapter 5|14 pages
Navigating the space between spaces
chapter 6|14 pages
Developing learning through producing
chapter 7|13 pages
A historical review of the social dynamics of school music education in Mainland China
chapter 8|13 pages
Towards 21st-century music teaching-learning
part III|104 pages
Curricula in popular music
chapter 13|13 pages
Do the stars know why they shine?
chapter 14|11 pages
‘I’ve heard there was a secret chord’
chapter 17|14 pages
Missing a beat*
chapter 18|14 pages
Artists to teachers – teachers to artists
part IV|100 pages
Careers, entrepreneurship and marketing
chapter 21|15 pages
Professional songwriting
chapter 25|15 pages
University music education in Colombia
chapter 26|13 pages
Popular music entrepreneurship in higher education
chapter 27|14 pages
Teaching music industry in challenging times
part V|124 pages
Social and critical issues