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.
Australia’s new collaborative songwriters and music producers are constructing global careers as backroom writers in the industry, often direct from secondary school, and contributing to that nation’s growing music export return. What were their formative learning experiences en route to those careers? Accounts of ten Australian backroom writers are presented.