Call for Papers: Journal of Popular Music Education

Special Issue: 'Breaking Down Barriers'

To be published summer 2026

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-popular-music-education#call-for-papers

Guest Editors:

Zack Moir (Professor of Learning and Teaching in Music, Edinburgh Napier University)

Bryden Stillie (Associate Professor in Music and Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching, Edinburgh Napier University)

Aidan Harvey (Associate Lecturer in Music, Edinburgh Napier University)

Call for Papers:

We live in an age in which technological advancements have rendered communication and collaboration across the globe easier and more accessible than ever before. However, there is simultaneously an increased presence of physical and ideological barriers between peoples and nations based on such issues as gender, race, language, social class, and culture. Additionally, social and cultural changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have had the effect of causing addition barriers to communication, collaboration and progress in our field. As such, this Special Issue seeks papers which investigate, problematize, and find ways to break down the barriers to, in, and for popular music education, and which consider ways to work together as educators to overcome the challenges faced by our field in an increasingly unsettled global social climate.

In addition to papers focussing on breaking down barriers within popular music education, we invite contributions on, but not limited to, the following themes:

• Reconciling commercial interests and educational aspirations

• Innovative approaches in music teaching and learning

• Recording, production, and music technologies

• Community music

• Crossover musics

• Inclusion and diversity

• Curricula and assessment practices

• Classroom conundrums

• Music futures

• Adult education

• Music therapy

• Populism and popularity

• Collegiality, communities, and collectives

• Facilities and facilitation

• Bounded and boundaryless careers

Authors should submit manuscripts of between 6,000 to 8,000 words (double-spaced, Times New Roman, font size 12, including references). Please refer to the Intellect style guide when preparing a submission.

Full papers should be uploaded via the journal’s submission website- https://submission.pubkit.co/publisher/29/journal/308/login or using the submissions portal via the JPME website by 1 February 2025.

Enquiries are welcome, and should be emailed to the corresponding guest editor, Professor Zack Moir- (Z.Moir@napier.ac.uk)