Journal

of Popular Music Education

Call for papers for a special issue titled
Progressive Methods in Popular Music Education

The Progressive Methods in Popular Music Education Symposium held at the University of
Western Ontario June 8-9th 2018 brought together researchers, practitioners and others
concerned with viewing popular music education through a progressive lens. A call for papers is
now made for a special issue of the Journal of Popular Music Education with articles deriving
from this symposium.
The Journal of Popular Music Education is a peer-reviewed journal published by Intellect. It
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. 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.
Papers are welcomed within and around the symposium themes below:
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

Music education and popular music employment
• Preparing young people to work in the popular music industry
• School music education
• Higher education
• Teacher preparation
• Digitally mediated musicianship

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
Scholarship from and across all relevant research methods and disciplines is welcome. Please
submit manuscripts of between 6,000 and 8,000 words (double-spaced, Times New Roman,
font size 12, including references) by December 1, 2018 for the attention of guest editors Ruth
Wright, Susan O’Neill and Patrick Schmidt via the JPME website. Please refer to JPME
submission guidelines and Intellect style guide when preparing a submission.
Less traditional format submissions are also welcomed for the perspectives and practices
section of the journal.
Links: JPME website - https://tinyurl.com/JPMESubmit
JPME submission guidelines - https://tinyurl.com/JMPEsubguide
Intellect style guide – tinyurl.com/Intstyleguide