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.
In this research presentation, I will discuss the findings from a qualitative, phenomenological, multi-case study in which participants discussed curricular elements, personal preferences, and academic successes associated with involvement in nontraditional (modern band) music classes. Participants in this action research study were 9th-12th grade students at a small alternative high school in the Rocky Mountain region.