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.
Artistic disposition has a profound impact on how we engage and identify with music in a complex and pluralistic musical culture. The American public music educator, as a member of a pluralistic musical culture, is responsible for providing an accessible music education for all students. As such, the educator must provide an education that reflects each student’s identity within a multitude of cultural intersections. The opportunity for each student to engage with a comprehensive music education in order to cultivate individual artistic dispositions is an educational necessity that has been articulated and reified by contemporary philosophers in the music education community. Emphasis of an artistic mindset in secondary music education settings can facilitate the realization of an individual’s identity and cultural belonging by providing a means of expression through musical expression. However, while contemporary music education philosophers implore practitioners to nurture every individual’s artistic disposition, addressing these issues is limited by curricular design, teaching processes, and learning experiences of the student and the music educator. The purpose of this workshop examines the intersection between Community Responsive Practices, American National Arts Standards, and Elemental Process Teaching to cultivate individuals’ artistic dispositions in order to address the challenges that music educators currently face in preparing graduates for successful engagement in a diverse array of contemporary American musical cultures.
