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!
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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.
How can studying the popular music tradition and encouraging students’ innovations be balanced most fruitfully? This session shows how they can feed off each other. A music tradition is like a language – our students must learn to speak it in order to join a conversation and say something innovative.
This presentation explores the impact of DAWs (digital audio workstations) on contemporary music production, particularly in rap and electro. Through the study of the different types of pedagogies and practices of Ableton Live, it examines its role in creation, shared knowledge (prescribed, acquired, know-how), and its social and technical influence in modern home studios.
The presenter describes his work as a professor and provocateur at a US university. The presenter gives drum kit performances in a university art gallery, modeling noisy, relational resistance in co-musicking as fundamental to a necessary paradigm shift to counter perpetuation of racist, regressive social policy in the United States.
This session explores how popular music set works are analyzed in GCSE and A Level curricula, questioning the authenticity of current methods. It highlights gaps in traditional frameworks, suggesting inclusive pedagogical approaches to better represent the cultural and stylistic dimensions of popular music for deeper student engagement and learning.
The Colombia Workshop explores traditional Colombian music through movement, rhythm, and collaborative creation. Participants engage in interactive activities, discovering diverse pedagogical tools and traditional repertoires. The workshop fosters reflection, dialogue, and hands-on experiences, enhancing teaching methodologies while celebrating Colombia’s rich musical heritage.
