Name: How Understanding The Blues Can Create Equitable Classrooms
Start: 2025-06-07T10:15:00-0500
End: 2025-06-07T11:15:00-0500

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.

Saturday June 7, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am CDT

SPAC - Hodges Choral Room

Ever since the Civil Rights Act of the 1960s, many schools have become increasingly diverse. However, the majority of educators in the United States are white and attended primarily white institutions. Therefore, many of these educators approach instruction with a Eurocentric (classical music) approach. This would include a passive receptive approach to teaching like sitting and listening to a Beethoven Symphony. However, other cultures, such as African American, are more accustomed to a call and response (the Blues) approach in which they are engaged. Students of color are used to music such as the Blues, Soul, Funk, and Hip Hop that utilize polyrhythm, improvisation, and active participation. The lack of understanding of these musical concepts in genres like the Blues creates classrooms that are not culturally inclusive. In this engaging and participatory workshop, we will examine these musical elements and how they can be actively used in the classroom in any content area to create culturally relevant lessons and a welcoming environment for all students.

Speakers

Vincent Sneed

Music Educator, Gwinnett County Schools

Vincent Sneed has been a music educator in public schools in Georgia for the past 21 years. He has taught both high and middle school which included teaching band, chorus, music history, music theory, music appreciation, and piano. Sneed also has provided music for churches across... Read More →

Saturday June 7, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am CDT
SPAC - Hodges Choral Room 3800 Central Ave, Memphis, TN 38117

K-12 Education, Workshop

APME Memphis 2025

Vincent Sneed

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