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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.
Saturday, June 8 • 11:30am - 12:00pm
Ghost in the Machine: Do algorithms revisit the racist past of popular music?

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Popular music has a long history of segregated charts, cultural appropriation, and the reinforcement of biased listening. In this session, we will examine how streaming algorithms reinforced these historic biases, the possibility of anti-racist music recommendations, and how algorithms recognize or fail to recognize actual musical attributes.
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Saturday June 8, 2024 11:30am - 12:00pm PDT
Room 5
  Technologies in Popular Music Education, Research
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