Dear All,
For those of you working in popular music education. Please forward to other colleagues who may be interested in attending! The symposium is scheduled to coincide with the MayDay Group Colloquium 30, which is from June 6-9. Details about both events can be found at http://music.uwo.ca/outreach/symposium-on-progressive-methods.html
Progressive Methods in Popular Music Education, Western University, London, Ontario, June 8-9 2018
Inaugural Symposium
Canadian Popular Music Education Network
The Progressive Methods in Popular Music Education Symposium seeks to bring together researchers, practitioners and others concerned with viewing popular music education through a progressive lens.
Presentation proposals and workshops on any aspect of popular music progressive methodology are welcome. The conference will be organized under the three strands below:
v Diversity and Inclusion
* Engagement and inclusion of marginalized and at risk youth in popular music education
programs (including but not restricted to FNMI and LGBTQ youth)
* Avoiding replication of gender role and sexual identity stereotypes, reinforcements and
inequities
v Music education and popular music employment
* Preparing young people to work in the popular music industry
* School music education
* Higher education
* T eacher preparation
* Digitally mediated musicianship
v Popular music, culture and society
* Considerations for education of popular music’s position as structural, hegemonic, market
driven cultural commodity and counter/non hegemonic, agentic expressive medium
* Implications for popular music education of concepts such as cultural capital, stratification,
omnivorousness and gentrification
* Contextualizing concepts of democracy, social justice and egalitarianism within popular
music education
Formats & Guidelines:
Proposals for 20-minute papers or 30-minute workshop presentations will be considered. Abstracts or workshop descriptions of no more than 250 words should be supplied, together with a brief biography of 150 words. Participants are asked to indicate the type of presentation (Paper or Workshop) for which they are applying and which of the conference strands it is intended to fall within. Workshop applicants are requested to indicate in the case that instrumental or technical resources beyond data projection and audio equipment would be required.
All submissions must be received by January 31, 2018
Submissions can be sent directly to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Successful applicants will be notified no later than March 1, 2018
Conference Chair Conference Administrator Dr. Ruth Wright Kelly Bylica
Alison Butler
PhD candidate in Music Education
Don Wright Faculty of Music
Western University
Room 125, Talbot College
London, ON, Canada
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Blog: https://alisonbutlermusic.wordpress.com
Twitter: @EducatingAlison
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