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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. 
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Pop Off Sis!: Teaching Civic Engagement and Political Action Through Popular Music
Saturday June 7, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm CDT
Classroom 105 - Legacy Building
In today's polarized political climate, students are often exposed to a wide variety of political thought but are not often taught to engage with political expression responsibly, thoughtfully, and creatively. Further, how might we encourage students to bridge divides, engage in responsible creative output, become passionate about issues of activism and social justice, and engage in democratic practices through the study of popular music? This session teaches attendees how to use popular music education, modern band, and secondary general music courses as a means of teaching students to be engaged and active citizens in their local political scene. I focus on the history of pop music as a tool for resistance, the role of songwriting in expressing political sentiments, performance as art, activism, and protest, and how we can encourage students to be responsible and engaged citizens through the study and performance of popular music. Attendees will be led through a brief history of the role of popular music in America’s long political history, participate in a political songwriting activity that they will share with each other, and engage with a sample project that showcases the potential for using popular music education for activism and citizenship.
Speakers
avatar for Cameron Elliott

Cameron Elliott

Doctoral Teaching Assistant, University of Miami
Music teacher educator and researcher with a passion for interdisciplinary approaches to music education, policy, and research! To see this in action, come to my session entitled "Pop Off Sis!: Teaching civic engagement and political action through popular music."
Saturday June 7, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm CDT
Classroom 105 - Legacy Building 3775 Central Avenue 129 Music Building Memphis, TN, 38111
  K-12 Education, Workshop

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