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by Joe Bennett | Nov 4, 2024 | 5live, music education, musicology, Popular Music, Songwriting

Words: Joe Bennett and John Pierce O’Reilly This week Gordon and I went lo-fi and visited some home studios! Home recording has existed as a practice for over 70 years – nearly as long as the history of pop music itself – and can be loosely defined as the...
Popular Music Education: Foreword

Popular Music Education: Foreword

by Joe Bennett | Apr 3, 2019 | Association of Popular Music Education, berklee, Education, music education, Popular Music, Research

This post is taken from my foreword to The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education: Perspectives and Practices (Bloomsbury, 2019). Editors: Zack Moir, Bryan Powell, Gareth Dylan Smith. Used by permission. Popular Music Education. These three words, even though...

Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice

by Joe Bennett | Jan 8, 2019 | music education, Research

In October 2018, Berklee announced the launch of a new initiative, led by the remarkable Terri Lyne Carrington. The Institute was founded on a musical question, which is: What would jazz sound like in a culture without patriarchy? This morning I was viewing the video...

Service Models in Popular Music Production Education #arp #songwriting

by Joe Bennett | Sep 3, 2018 | arp, Education, music education, music production, Popular Music, Songwriting

Collective Creativity: A ‘Service’ Model of Contemporary Commercial Pop Music Paul Thompson, Leeds Beckett University, UK Phil Harding, Leeds Beckett University, UK Keywords: Creativity, Pop Production, Songwriting ABSTRACT: A commercial pop music production is rarely...

The Art of Listening To Songs #apme2018

by Joe Bennett | Jun 25, 2018 | Association of Popular Music Education, Education, music education, Popular Music, Songwriting

Randy Klein, songwriter and SongU coach. Randy introduces himself and talks briefly about his work in music education, including his publications, talks, and his experience of listening to other songwriters’ work over many years. Today he’s sharing with us...

Music Technology, Bandlab and Berklee #apme2018

by Joe Bennett | Jun 25, 2018 | Association of Popular Music Education, music education, music production, Networked music performance

On the bus to the university this morning I introduced myself to the person sat next to me, who turned out to be John Bigus from my own institution (Berklee’s a great community, but it’s a BIG community, so it’s possible to work there for a long time...
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