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.
I. Introduction
1. Foreword
Lucy Green
2. Popular Music Education (R)evolution
Gareth Dylan Smith, Zack Moire, Matt Brennan, Shara Rambarran & Phil Kirkman
3.Popular Music Education: A Step into the Light
Rupert Till
II. Past, present and future
4. The Historical Foundations of Popular Music Education in the United States
Andy Krikun
5. Navigating the Spcae Between Spaces: Curricular Change in Popular Music Teacher Education in the United States
David Williams & Clint Randles
6. Developing Learning Through Producing: Secondary School Students' Experiences of a Technologically Aided Pedagogical Intervention
Aleksi Ojala
7. A Historical Review of the Social Dynamics of School Music Education in Mainland China: A Study of the Political Power of Popular Songs
Wai-Chung Ho
8. Towards 21st Century Music Teaching-Learning: Reflections on Student-centric Pedagogic Practices Involving Popular Music in Singapore
Siew-Ling Chua & Hui Ping Ho
9. Popular Music Education in Hong Kong: A Case Study of the Baron School of Music
Hei-Ting Wong
10. Mediations, Institutions and Post-Compulsory Popular Music Education
Seán McLaughlin
11 Where to now? The Current Condition and Future Trajectory of Popular Music Studies in British Universities
Simon Warner
12. Parallel, Series, and Integrated: Models of Tertiary Popular Music Education
Gavin Carfoot, Brad Millard, Samantha Bennett & Christopher Allan
III. Curricula in popular music
13. Do The Stars Know Why They Shine? An Argument for Including Cultural Theory in Popular Music Programmes
Emma Hooper
14. I've Heard There Was a Secret Chord': Do We Need to Teach Music Notation in UK Popular Music Studies?
Paul Fleet
15. 'Art' to Artistry: A Contemporary Approach to Vocal Pedagogy
Diane Hughes
16. Defeating the Muse: Advanced Songwriting Pedagogy and Creative Block
Jo Collinson-Scott
17. Missing a Beat: Exploring Experiences, Perceptions and Reflections of Popular Electronic Musicians in UK Higher Education Institutions
Paul Thompson & Alex Stevenson
18. Artists to Teachers - Teachers to Artists: Providing a Space for Aesthetic Experience at Secondary Schools through Popular Music
Axel Schwarz & David-Emil Wickström
19. Musical Listening: Teaching Studio Production in an Academic Institution
Eirik Askeroi & André Viervoll
20. Popular Music and Modern Band Principles
Bryan Powell & Scott Burstein
IV. Careers, entrepreneurship and marketing
21. Professional Songwriting: Creativity, the Creative Process, and Tensions Between Higher Education Songwriting and Industry Practice in the UK
Matt Gooderson & Jennie Henley
22. Popular Music Pedagogy: Dual Perspectives on DIY Musicianship
Don Lebler & Naomi Hodges
23. Towards a Framework for Creativity in Popular Music Degrees
Joe Bennett
24. Re-Mixing Popular Music Marketing Education
Ray Sylvester & Daragh O'Reilly
25. University Music Education in Colombia: The Multidimensionality of Teaching and Training
Luz Rivas Caicedo
26. Popular Music Entrepreneurship in Higher Education: Facilitating Group Creativity and Spin-off Formation Through Internship Programmes
Guy Morrow, Emily Gilfillan, Iqbal Barkat & Phyllis Sakinofsky
27. Teaching Music Industry in Challenging Times: Addressing the Neoliberal Employability Agenda in Higher Education at a Time of Music-Industrial Turbulence
Michael Jones
V. Social and critical issues
28. Popular Music Meta-Pedagogy in Music Teacher Education
Ian Axtell, Martin Fautley & Kelly Davey Nicklin
29. A Place in the Band: Negotiating Barriers to Inclusion in a Rock Band Setting
Jesse Rathgeber
30. Teaching the Devil's Music: Some Intersections of Popular Music, Education and Morality in a Faith School Setting
Tom Parkinson
31. Social Justice and Popular Music: Building a Generation of Artists Impacting Social Change.
Sheila Woodward
32. Popular Music and (R)evolution of the Classroom Space: Occupy Wall Street in the Music School
Nasim Niknafs & Liz Przybylski
33. Popular Music Education, Participation and Democracy: Some Nordic Perspectives
Catharina Christophersen & Anna Karin Gullberg
34. Feral Pop: The Participatory Power of Improvised Popular Music
Charlie Bramley & Gareht Dylan Smith
35. Epistemological and Sociological Issues in Popular Music Eduation
David G. Hebert, Joseph A. Abramo & Gareth Dylan Smith
