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.

Table of Contents

• List of contributors
• Part I: Introduction
• Foreword - Lucy Green
• Popular music education (r)evolution - Gareth Dylan Smith, Zack Moir, Matt Brennan, Shara Rambarran and Phil Kirkman
• Popular music education: a step into the light - Rupert Till
• Part II: Past, present and future
• The historical foundations of popular music education in the United States - Andrew Krikun
• Navigating the space between spaces: curricular change in music teacher education in the United States - David A. Williams and Clint Randles
• Developing learning through producing: secondary school students’ experiences of a technologically aided pedagogical intervention - Aleksi Ojala
• 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
• Towards 21st-century music teaching-learning: reflections on student-centric pedagogic practices involving popular music in Singapore - Siew Ling Chua and Hui-Ping Ho
• Popular music education in Hong Kong: a case study of the Baron School of Music - Hei Ting Wong
• Mediations, institutions and post-compulsory popular music education - Seán McLaughlin
• Where to now? The current condition and future trajectory of popular music studies in British universities - Simon Warner
• Parallel, series and integrated: models of tertiary popular music education - Gavin Carfoot, Brad Millard, Samantha Bennett and Christopher Allan
• Part III: Curricula in popular music
• Do the stars know why they shine? An argument for including cultural theory in popular music programmes - Emma Hooper
• ‘I've heard there was a secret chord’: do we need to teach music notation in UK popular music studies? - Paul Fleet
• ‘Art’ to artistry: a contemporary approach to vocal pedagogy - Diane Hughes
• Defeating the muse: advanced songwriting pedagogy and creative block - Jo Collinson Scott
• Missing a beat: exploring experiences, perceptions and reflections of popular electronic musicians in UK higher education institutions - Paul Thompson and Alex Stevenson
• Artists to teachers – teachers to artists: providing a space for aesthetic experience at secondary schools through popular music - Axel Schwarz and David-Emil Wickström
• Musical listening: teaching studio production in an academic institution - Eirik Askerøi and André Viervoll
• Popular music and Modern Band principles - Bryan Powell and Scott Burstein
• Part IV: Careers, entrepreneurship and marketing
• Professional songwriting: creativity, the creative process and tensions between higher education songwriting and industry practice in the UK - Matt Gooderson and Jennie Henley
• Popular music pedagogy: dual perspectives on DIY musicianship - Don Lebler and Naomi Hodges
• Towards a framework for creativity in popular music degrees - Joe Bennett
• Re-Mixing Popular Music Marketing Education - Ray Sylvester and Daragh O'Reilly
• University music education in Colombia: the multidimensionality of teaching and training - Luz Dalila Rivas Caicedo
• Popular music entrepreneurship in higher education: facilitating group creativity and spin-off formation through internship programmes - Guy Morrow, Emily Gilfillan, Iqbal Barkat and Phyllis Sakinofsky
• Teaching music industry in challenging times: addressing the neoliberal employability agenda in higher education at a time of music-industrial turbulence - Michael Jones
• Part V: Social and critical issues
• Popular music meta-pedagogy in music teacher education - Ian Axtell, Martin Fautley and Kelly Davey Nicklin
• A place in the band: negotiating barriers to inclusion in a rock band setting - Jesse Rathgeber
• Teaching the devil's music: some intersections of popular music, education and morality in a faith-school setting - Tom Parkinson
• Social justice and popular music education: building a generation of artists impacting social change - Sheila C. Woodward
• Popular music and (r)evolution of the classroom space: Occupy Wall Street in the music school - Nasim Niknafs and Liz Przybylski
• Popular music education, participation and democracy: some Nordic perspectives - Catharina Christophersen and Anna-Karin Gullberg
• Feral Pop: the participatory power of improvised popular music - Charlie Bramley and Gareth Dylan Smith
• Epistemological and sociological issues in popular music education - David G. Hebert, Joseph Abramo and Gareth Dylan Smith