The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education Popular music is a growing presence in education, formal and otherwise, from pri- mary school to postgraduate study. Programmes, courses and modules in popular music studies, popular music performance, songwriting and areas of music technol- ogy are becoming commonplace across higher education. Additionally, specialist pop/ rock/jazz graded exam syllabi, such as RockSchool and Trinity Rock and Pop, have emerged in recent years, meaning that it is now possible for school leavers in some countries to meet university entry requirements having studied only popular music. In the context of teacher education, classroom teachers and music-specialists alike are becoming increasingly empowered to introduce popular music into their classrooms. At present, research in Popular Music Education lies at the fringes of the fields of music education, ethnomusicology, community music, cultural studies and popular music studies. 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. Gareth Dylan Smith is Research Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance in London, UK. Zack Moir is a Lecturer in Popular Music at Edinburgh Napier University and the University of the Highlands and Islands, UK. Matt Brennan is a Chancellor’s Fellow of Music at the University of Edinburgh and has served as Chair of the UK and Ireland branch of the International Associa- tion for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM). Shara Rambarran is Assistant Professor of Music at the Bader International Study Centre, Queen’s University, Canada. Phil Kirkman is Principal Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education Edited by Gareth Dylan Smith, Zack Moir, Matt Brennan, Shara Rambarran and Phil Kirkman First published 2017 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2017 Gareth Dylan Smith The right of Gareth Dylan Smith to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN: 978-1-4724-6498-9 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-61344-4 (ebk) Typeset in Bembo by Apex CoVantage, LLC Contents List of contributors x PART I Introduction 1 1 Foreword 3 Lucy Green 2 Popular music education (r)evolution 5 Gareth Dylan Smith, Zack Moir, Matt Brennan, Shara Rambarran and Phil Kirkman 3 Popular music education: a step into the light 14 Rupert Till PART II Past, present and future 31 4 The historical foundations of popular music education in the United States 33 Andrew Krikun 5 Navigating the space between spaces: curricular change in music teacher education in the United States 46 David A. Williams and Clint Randles 6 Developing learning through producing: secondary school students’ experiences of a technologically aided pedagogical intervention 60 Aleksi Ojala v Contents 7 A historical review of the social dynamics of school music education in Mainland China: a study of the political power of popular songs 74 Wai-Chung Ho 8 Towards 21st-century music teaching-learning: reflections on student-centric pedagogic practices involving popular music in Singapore 87 Siew Ling Chua and Hui-Ping Ho 9 Popular music education in Hong Kong: a case study of the Baron School of Music 100 Hei Ting Wong 10 Mediations, institutions and post-compulsory popular music education 114 Seán McLaughlin 11 Where to now? The current condition and future trajectory of popular music studies in British universities 127 Simon Warner 12 Parallel, series and integrated: models of tertiary popular music education 139 Gavin Carfoot, Brad Millard, Samantha Bennett and Christopher Allan PART III Curricula in popular music 151 13 Do the stars know why they shine? An argument for including cultural theory in popular music programmes 153 Emma Hooper 14 ‘I’ve heard there was a secret chord’: do we need to teach music notation in UK popular music studies? 166 Paul Fleet 15 ‘Art’ to artistry: a contemporary approach to vocal pedagogy 177 Diane Hughes vi Contents 16 Defeating the muse: advanced songwriting pedagogy and creative block 190 Jo Collinson Scott 17 Missing a beat: exploring experiences, perceptions and reflections of popular electronic musicians in UK higher education institutions 203 Paul Thompson and Alex Stevenson 18 Artists to teachers – teachers to artists: providing a space for aesthetic experience at secondary schools through popular music 217 Axel Schwarz and David-Emil Wickström 19 Musical listening: teaching studio production in an academic institution 231 Eirik Askerøi and André Viervoll 20 Popular music and Modern Band principles 243 Bryan Powell and Scott Burstein PART IV Careers, entrepreneurship and marketing 255 21 Professional songwriting: creativity, the creative process and tensions between higher education songwriting and industry practice in the UK 257 Matt Gooderson and Jennie Henley 22 Popular music pedagogy: dual perspectives on DIY musicianship 272 Don Lebler and Naomi Hodges 23 Towards a framework for creativity in popular music degrees 285 Joe Bennett 24 Re-Mixing Popular Music Marketing Education 298 Ray Sylvester and Daragh O’Reilly 25 University music education in Colombia: the multidimensionality of teaching and training 313 Luz Dalila Rivas Caicedo vii Contents 26 Popular music entrepreneurship in higher education: facilitating group creativity and spin-off formation through internship programmes 328 Guy Morrow, Emily Gilfillan, Iqbal Barkat and Phyllis Sakinofsky 27 Teaching music industry in challenging times: addressing the neoliberal employability agenda in higher education at a time of music-industrial turbulence 341 Michael Jones PART V Social and critical issues 355 28 Popular music meta-pedagogy in music teacher education 357 Ian Axtell, Martin Fautley and Kelly Davey Nicklin 29 A place in the band: negotiating barriers to inclusion in a rock band setting 369 Jesse Rathgeber 30 Teaching the devil’s music: some intersections of popular music, education and morality in a faith-school setting 382 Tom Parkinson 31 Social justice and popular music education: building a generation of artists impacting social change 395 Sheila C. Woodward 32 Popular music and (r)evolution of the classroom space: Occupy Wall Street in the music school 412 Nasim Niknafs and Liz Przybylski 33 Popular music education, participation and democracy: some Nordic perspectives 425 Catharina Christophersen and Anna-Karin Gullberg 34 Feral Pop: the participatory power of improvised popular music 438 Charlie Bramley and Gareth Dylan Smith viii Contents 35 Epistemological and sociological issues in popular music education 451 David G. Hebert, Joseph Abramo and Gareth Dylan Smith Index 479 ix