The Journal of Popular Music Education (JPME) seeks to define, delimit, debunk, disseminate and disrupt practice and discourse in and around popular music education. Popular music education takes place at the intersections of identity realization, learning, teaching, enculturation, entrepreneurship, creativity, a global multimedia industry and innumerable instances of music making as leisure.
JPME publishes scholarly articles as well as reviews of books, other media and events. A unique feature of this journal is that they publish practitioner articles in a recurring section of the journal titled “Practices and Perspectives”. These articles are not fully peer-reviewed, and are both shorter and less scholarly than regular articles.
The Journal of Popular Music Education is a benefit of membership for all APME members
Published three times a yearOne of the main aims of this journal is iteratively to define the parameters of the field and disciplines of its readership and contributors (especially with regard to other journals in popular music, and music education), this being an emerging field of scholarship and practice. The other principal aim is to disseminate excellent critique and other forms of scholarship (e.g. phenomenological) in and related to the field. The journal aims to have an inclusive, global reach. “Education” and “popular music” are terms that we are glad to see stretched and problematized through rigorous examination from multiple international perspectives.
Call for Papers
Through drawing together diverse, rigorous scholarship concerning learning in, through and about popular music worldwide, JPME seeks to identify, probe and problematize key issues in this vibrant, evolving field. Scholarship from and across all relevant research methods and disciplines is welcome. Areas for consideration include but are not limited to performance, recording, production, song-writing, composition, technology, listening, movement, socializing, identity, travel, social classification and stratification, marketing, politics, religion, nationalism, fashion, multi-arts and cross-cultural perspectives. Areas for consideration could include but should not be limited to: performance, recording, production, songwriting, composition, technology, listening, movement, socializing, identity, travel, social classification and stratification, marketing, politics, religion, nationalism, fashion, multi-arts and cross-cultural perspectives. Please submit manuscripts of between 6,000 and 8,000 words (double-spaced, Times New Roman, font size 12) for the attention of editors please visit intellectbooks.com/journal-of-popular-music-education.
Call For Reviews
Journal of Popular Music Education seeks scholarly reviews of the latest books, films, media, exhibitions, musical groups and performers, and popular music education events. If you would like to suggest something for review, please visit intellectbooks.com/journal-of-popular-music-education. All articles submitted should be original work and must not be under consideration by other publications. Journal contributors will receive a free PDF copy of their final work upon publication. Print copies of the journal may also be purchased by contributors at half price.