The Association for Popular Music Education is an international music education organization whose mission is to “promote and advance popular music at all levels of education both in the classroom and beyond.” APME members include anyone whose interests lie in or adjacent to popular music education, including professional musicians, Kâ12 teachers, industry professionals, music teacher educators, researchers, students, scholars, community music teachers, and others. The broad overlap of our musical backgrounds and careers offers our community the opportunity to learn from and with each other â to include our multi-faceted experiences of popular music and popular musicians as the core of our teaching, research, performance, and entrepreneurial practices.
Benefits of APME membership includes:
Community.
Find your people through connecting with performers, leaders, and experts in the field of popular music and popular music education.
Receive our newsletter containing news, updates, and resources.
Collaboration.
Opportunity to attend, present, and perform at our 2024 conferences throughout the world.
Explore various concepts of learning and teaching popular music in a creative setting with other like-minded musicians.
Conversation.
Engage in conversations and critiques of popular music education with the research community.
Present your research at our conferences and publish in the Journal of Popular Music Education.
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Being a member of APME allows our diverse community the opportunity to connect with one another and share resources, ideas, and experiences. If you’re an organization looking to support APME beyond becoming a member, we encourage you to visit our Support page. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out to us at info@popularmusiceducation.org We look forward to having you be a part of our community!
Membership Levels
Individual
For professionals, university faculty, and community music teachers.
Benefits include:
- Network with musicians, teachers, and scholars from around the world
- Present at our multiple conference around the world
- Free access to the Journal of Popular Music Education.
- Discounted 2 and 3-year options
Kâ12 Teacher
For elementary/primary & secondary/FE music teachers.
Benefits include:
- Network with musicians, teachers, and scholars from around the world
- Present at our multiple conference around the world
- Free access to the Journal of Popular Music Education.
- Discounted 2 and 3-year options
Institution
For universities, community colleges, & non-profits.
Benefits include:
- Five Individual Memberships for faculty members
- Feature your Institution in our monthly newsletter
- Host a table at our conferences
- Discounted 2 and 3-year options
Student
Students from elementary to graduate school.
Benefits include:
- Network with musicians, teachers, and scholars worldwide
- Present at our online Graduate Student conference
- Apply for APME conference funding
- Apply to be a conference worker