Welcome to the APME Memphis 2025 conference. Here, you’ll be able to register for the conference and update your Sched profile. The conference schedule will be available in late spring 2025. At that time, you can view the schedule and select the 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 4–7, 2025.
Music has always been the soundtrack to our lives; telling stories and histories of what’s happening, what could happen and how it can get better. Everyone always says “that ain’t nothing but the blues.” The reason is the Blues is the foundation of American music, however it took the UK musicians to reintroduce African-American master musicians and songwriters to white America in the 1960s, formerly known as the “British Invasion.” Many British artists and bands were idolized and paid homage to Delta Blues musicians like Robert Johnson, Lead Belly, Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters and so many more. In his forthcoming documentary film, "Take Me To The River London," GRAMMY and SXSW Award Winner Martin Shore tells this story through a style he has pioneered, The Living Documentary, that incorporates new and original art that evolves during the film providing an interactive experience. By examining these musical traditions and cultures through audio/visual and music activities that bring parts of these cultures to life during the presentation participants will gain an understanding of how these traditions inspired and reminded being able to be carried through to current times, providing a runway to build cultural fluency with a multicultural awareness lens. This will be done with audio and visual from the forthcoming film "Take Me To The River London."
