Each month, we invite fresh voices from our vibrant APME community to share their ideas, insights, and inspiration on the blog. These are short, punchy posts—smart takes, big questions, or quick hits from the front lines. Want in? Scroll down to read what your fellow members have shared. Then say yes. Say something. Submit your blog post HERE.
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Showboating – The Magic of Stage Presence and What Popular Music Educators Can Learn from the Theatre
October 11, 2026
The trajectory of my life and career has taken several turns over the years, but one thing has remained the same: a love for live storytelling. Growing up on stage in both drama and music, I was obsessed with the hokey, the cheesy, and the crowd-pleasing (still am). There was something profound about the experience…
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When Hip-Hop Becomes Scholarship: Expanding What Counts in Higher Education
August 31, 2026
In popular music education, we often ask our students to engage in real-world creative practice—writing songs, producing tracks, recording albums, and releasing work publicly. Yet within higher education, those same activities have rarely been recognized as legitimate forms of faculty scholarship. Books, journal articles, and conference papers remain the dominant currencies of academic validation, even…
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Musings on Miami
July 27, 2026
Miami loves orange, and a particular kind of orange at that – so I discovered when, in the fall of 2014, I arrived inMiami to start my PhD at UM Frost. Nine months later, I found myself in the thick of helping tohost the 2015 APME conference held at UM. We had orange shirts for…
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