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.
This presentation looks at hip-hop for youth education and activism. This research seeks to understand how hip-hop culture can be utilized to allow young people to share their lived experiences, connect these experiences to larger social issues, and share accessible information about these social issues with their community.