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.
The purpose of this study was to conduct a content analysis of all published articles in the Journal of Popular Music Education since the journal's establishment in 2017. Given that JPME editors are focused on “defining the parameters of the field [of popular music education] and disciplines of its readership and contributors,” an analysis of the contents of this journal may provide insights into the types of research and topics that have been undertaken with this aim in mind. We designed this study using categories for analysis that would permit us to draw comparisons with the findings of content analyses that have been completed for the three NAfME research journals. Thus, the following research questions guided our investigation:
Research Question 1: What are the methodologies represented by the articles published, and have these changed over time? Research Question 2: Who served as the participants in the quantitative and qualitative studies published? Research Question 3: What were the topics addressed in the articles?
The identification of trends over time, and comparison of those with extant content analyses of other music education journals, may allow gaps in areas of research to be identified and help provide insights into any changing interests in the profession. These data may provide insights into the article types, participants, and topics of interest in research designed to inform in-service music teachers, provide guidance for authors seeking publication venues, and help students and researchers know where to find various types of articles and topics.
