Popular music stands as a vital part of our modern lives. A valuable form of artistic expression, popular music embraces all facets of the human experience. It blends art with contemporary culture and tradition to make relevant the ever-changing now.
Driven by our mission to promote and advance popular music at all levels of education, both in the classroom and beyond, APME’s growing community of teachers, professional musicians, researchers, students, music industry professionals, and music teacher educators contribute to the embodiment of a vibrant, multifaceted music ecosystem. These networks of knowledge, understanding, and experience afford us the opportunity to learn with and from each other and to expand our collective voice as a leader in the field of music education.
APME offers a space for our multi-faceted and fluid community to come together to learn from and with each other. In doing so, we serve as a vibrant ecosystem that helps to promote and advance popular music at all levels of education, both in the classroom and beyond. We invite you to connect with, learn from, and contribute to our community as we consider our past while looking toward the future of popular music education.
APME Goals & Objectives
- To promote popular music education;
- To create educational opportunities for educators and students of popular music at all levels;
- To identify, develop, and critique approaches to learning and teaching in popular music;
- To encourage connections between the music industries and popular music education; and
- To foster collaboration among artists, teachers, scholars, and organizations to advance popular music.
