News

Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of Popular Music Education 4.1 is now available! 

Special Issue: 'Modern Band'

For more information about the journal and issue, click here >> https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-popular-music-education

Aims & Scope

This peer-reviewed journal aims to include all forms of scholarship relevant to popular music education and iteratively to shape the parameters of this emerging field. The editors welcome contributions that stretch, discuss and problematize any aspect of popular music education.

Issue 4.1

Introduction

Introduction to the special issue on modern band

pp. 3-4(2)

Bryan Powell, Gareth Dylan Smith

Articles

Examining effectiveness of modern band professional development for practising teachers

pp. 5-20(16)

Author: Jay Dorfman

Curriculum reform and policy considerations: A multiple case study of the inclusion of modern band into music teacher preparation programmes

pp. 21-40(20)

Authors: Jocelyn Stevens Prendergast; Brittany Nixon May

Popular music in preservice music education: Preparedness, confidence and implementation

pp. 41-60(20)

Authors: Sandra Hamilton, Jennifer Vannatta-Hall

Finding our way: The experiences of a rapper and his advisor in a bachelor of music programme

pp. 61-79(19)

Authors: Frank Martignetti, Joshua M. Brewster

Can they hear a difference? Professional digital composition and the ability of music students to discriminate deep-sampled vs. acoustic instrumental performance recordings

pp. 81-99(19)

José Valentino Ruiz, Patrick K Cooper, Jalil Najeeb Muhammed

Student voice and choice in modern band curriculum development

pp. 101-116(16)

Matthew Clauhs, Radio Cremata

Practices and Perspectives 

Popular music education and American democracy: Why I coined the term ‘modern band’ and the road ahead

pp. 117-125(9)

Dave Wish