Welcome to the APME Los Angeles 2024 conference. Here you’ll be able to register for the conference and update your Sched profile. A draft of the conference schedule will be available beginning March 1. At that time, you’ll be able to view the schedule and select what presentations you’d like to attend. 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 June 5–8 to consider the past, present, and future of popular music education.
Country music’s student-age fanbase is growing rapidly, but it remains largely excluded from the school music curriculum. This presentation offers some considerations for country music’s possible inclusion in the music classroom with particular attention to three concerns: the practicality of teaching country, the tricky politics of country, and the implications of incorporating country into the curriculum for music education philosophy.