University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre, and Dance
Ann Arbor Symposium IV
Teaching and Learning Popular Music
November 18-21, 2015

Ruth Wright
The Long Revolution and Popular Music Education: Or can Popular Music Education Change Society?
Friday, November 20, 2015 / 7:30pm - 8:30pm

The opening of Ann Arbor Symposium IV, Teaching and Learning Popular Music, marks an important time in music education in which awareness and acceptance of popular music and culture is rapidly increasing. In the tradition of past Ann Arbor Symposia, and with three academic departments of the School involved in the planning, we clearly value the knowledge produced from interdisciplinary perspectives, and hope to stimulate music research combining traditional and emergent musical ideas and practices. With representation from five countries, this Symposium is poised to form new bases for international collaborations in popular music research, online instruction, and extended projects that sustain popular music discourse.

The aims of the Symposium derive from the core values of the Department of Music Education, which include a broad and flexible concept of musicianship that takes into account and expands upon students’ individual strengths, interests, and experiences, and an emphasis on diversity, represented by student population, contexts of learning, musical content, pedagogical approaches, and intellectual paradigms.

Visit: www.rochester.edu/popmusic

Disclaimer: The content of this video is for educational purposes only. Both the Institute for Popular Music at the University of Rochester, and the presenter do not claim ownership of any original music or video content. All music and video content in each clip is considered owned by the individual music and/or broadcast companies.