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.
Pulitzer Prize winner and multi-platinum Hip Hop artist, Kendrick Lamar, is an exemplary pedagogical model for practicing music educators. As a master composer, Lamar is known for rich and deeply layered metaphors and compositional experimentation. Additionally, Lamar demonstrates a sustained commitment to his culture, through both celebration and critique. The purpose of this session is to explore the ways in which Kendrick Lamar: (a) employs the 21st Century skills of creativity, critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and connection in his musicking and; (b) models exemplary pedagogy and praxis for general music educators.
