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Judy Lewis
Dr. Judy Lewis is assistant professor of practice in music teaching & learning and coordinator of the masters of music in contemporary teaching practices K-12 at the Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California. Her scholarly focus is on popular music and music teaching and learning in the urban setting. Through her work she explores the intersections of popular music engagements, critical media literacy, and social justice. She has facilitated a variety of community music projects that targeted urban minority children and youth. She has served as assistant professor of music education at Queensborough Community College in New York City, and senior lecturer in popular songwriting at the Musrara School of Media and New Music in Jerusalem. She is a member of the international music education research consortium, Culture, Criticism, and Community supported by the Norwegian Research Council. Her scholarly writings have appeared in Philosophy of Music Education Review, School Music News, Music Educators Journal and Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain.