Welcome to the APME Liverpool 2025 conference. Here, you’ll be able to register for the conference and update your Sched profile. We encourage you to browse the various presentations and to create a custom schedule. If you have any questions, please visit our conference website or contact us at conference@popularmusiceducation.org We look forward to coming together as a community July 22–24, 2025!
Soul Jazz is an approachable and listener friendly way of entry into jazz for students unfamiliar with jazz. Students and educators of all levels will be enlightened to the vast potential of Soul Jazz to inspire and motivate those unfamiliar to learn more about Jazz.
Two presenters demonstrate and discuss their duoethnographic research practising, rehearsing and performing Beethoven’s Sonata No. 8 in C minor: Pathétique on piano and drums. They underscore the centrality of trust and relationality in meaningful musical performance and pedagogical experiences, emphasizing musical, scholarly and educational relationships based in mutuality and collaboration.
Despite Afrobeats’ global popularity and growing scholarly attention, it remains largely absent from higher education curricula. With King’s College London as a rare exception, this paper proposes a framework for teaching Afrobeats in global academia, identifying key sources and discourses to support its transition from pop culture to the classroom.
