The 2019 APME conference with the theme “Celebrating Diversity in Popular Music Education”, will be held at New York University - June 12 - 15 2019

The Berklee Institute for Arts Education and Special Needs (BIAESN) is delighted to announce the 2019 dates for its annual conference, ABLE Assembly: Arts Better the Lives of Everyone.

The ABLE Assembly 2019 will be held April 12–14 at Berklee College of Music in Boston.

The ABLE Assembly is an exceptional professional development opportunity in the field of arts education and special needs, bringing together educators, artists, researchers, policymakers, school administrators, program administrators, and students to share best practices, engage in hands-on experiences, explore new research, and learn from each other. 

The event features presentations and workshops on teaching the arts to students with special needs. Keynote presenters will be announced this fall. Workshops will include opportunities to experience teaching strategies and approaches in music, dance, and theater. 

The conference is open to the public.

“Can Hip Hop Shape How We See the LGBT Community?”

Featuring: James Miles, Big Freedia, Bettina Love, Jarritt Ahmed Sheel, Akiea Gross

This panel presentation features educators, musicians, writers, and researchers as we discuss the impact of guidelines and protections being rolled back by our current administration. How do we protect young people, in schools, when the federal government refuses to do so? If popular artists have a voice that can be used for change, how do they use it? What can we do as adult allies and advocates to change policy? How do we support students, like those from Parkland, to share their voices?

MMEA 2019 All-State Conference
February 28 - March 2, 2019
Seaport Hotel/World Trade Center
Boston, MA

MMEA, the Massachusetts Music Educators Association, in affiliation with NAfME, the National Association for Music Education, is pleased to present our annual All State Conference and Exhibition February 28 - March 2, 2019, at the Seaport Hotel/World Trade Center, in Boston, MA.

The annual All-State Conference features as many as 120 sessions, several concert hours and casual concerts, and is attended by more than 800 music educators and 500 of Massachusetts' top student musicians performing band, orchestral, jazz and choral works.

Hip-Hop in the Golden Age, Jacobs School of Music Indiana University, Bloomington

February 16–17, 2019

In honor of black history month, and in celebration of the 30th anniversary of De La Soul’s groundbreaking album 3 Feet High and Rising, Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music presents the interdisciplinary conference “Hip-Hop in the Golden Age.” Our keynote speaker will be Prince Paul (Paul Huston) of De La Soul.

Hip-hop’s golden age (ca. 1988–95) was a time of unprecedented creativity. Having crossed over into mainstream culture but not yet bound by the restrictions of major labels, rappers and producers explored seemingly limitless avenues of beat production, flow, and lyrical topics. This conference will explore any and all aspects of the golden age of hip-hop, including the historical circumstances that gave rise to it, and its impact on later artists: thus, paper presentations need not deal explicitly with hip-hop produced during that time. We envision this as an interdisciplinary conference, and welcome proposals from scholars in a variety of different disciplines, including those outside music.

Berklee College of Music hosts its High School Jazz Festival at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Berklee’s annual event is the largest of its kind in the United States, free, and open the public.

The Innovative Practices of Hip-Hop Music

As the sun rises on the 21st century, American music educators are still scrambling to understand the implications of the musical praxis of the 20th century. Artist like; Drake, Childish Gambino, Jay-Z, Kanye, Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, and many more still seem to remain outside of the purview of the educational establishment. Seemingly, music education, as an institution, continues to be behind the times in-terms of valuing home grown folk music, in real time. Hip-Hop is the fastest growing genre of music in 2018, and on top of that is the most listened too music in the world. Hip-hop, is American music, deeply rooted in the experience of the underprivileged and marginalized. In this session we will explore Hip-hop as a method, an idea, and a product. These are the main areas explored in this talk-workshop, and we will discuss, dialogue and debate the innovative practices found in the hip-hop movement and music, as well as engage in activities like; critical listening, collaging - looping, sampling, ostinati, and democratic practice (collaborate). Attendees will walk away with activities and concepts to infuse into their own instructional practices and curricular design. This talk should not, can not and will not adequately replace the research that should accompany detailed investigation into any new or foreign art form. Hip-hop is music, and we will explore it together. 

PHILOSOPHY OF HIP-HOP: collage, sample, loop and hook

Jarritt Sheel is currently an assistant professor of Music Education at the Berklee College of Music, where he teaches various education courses, applied trumpet, and works with Dr. Toki Wright in developing their hip-hop Studies program. He has toured internationally, worked with thousands of students in high school band programs. He previously taught in the Music Education program at NYU-Steinhardt, as well as Critical Theory, Art History, and Democracy courses for the CUNY system. He is currently an Ensemble Director for the high school jazz academy at JALC. He is a doctoral candidate at Teachers College, in the Music & Music Education, and his research focuses on hip-hop, CRT and culturally relevant practices in music education.

Jarritt Ahmed Sheel is a fourth-year doctoral candidate at Teachers College, Columbia University in the Music and Music Education Department. As a professional musician, he has toured internationally, worked with hundreds of students in high school band programs throughout the great states of Illinois, Florida, Missouri, Alabama, Georgia and New York. He has been fortunate to have taught music courses at the Aspen Award-winning Valencia College. Most recently he has taught collegiate level courses, based on Critical Theory, Critical Race Theory, Art History, and Democracy, in the City Universities of New York system (CUNY).

Mr. Sheel is currently the Ensemble Director for the Youth Workshop Band in the Youth Programs as part of the Education department at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. He has recently accepted a faculty position as a professor of Music Education at New York University - Steinhardt within their Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions. At NYU, Professor Sheel is responsible for teaching a variety of music education courses, the supervision of student teachers and the coaching of ensembles. His research foci center around the intersectionality and potentiality of hip-hop (music, culture, and pedagogies) in music education. He is husband, father, pet owner, deejay, a professional  trumpet player with a live music group called The Freedom Now Project, a board member of the Association for Popular Music Education, an editor of the music resource website www.hiphopmusiced.com<http://www.hiphopmusiced.com/>, and leads a social media movement around the hashtag #hip hopmusiced.

Modern Band Rockfest 2017

#HIPHOPMUSICED

Presenting at successful strategies for implementing hip-hop in music education classrooms. 

2017 APME Conference @ University of Colorodao

"LET’S BAND TOGETHER!  ADVANCING POPULAR MUSIC EDUCATION"

#HIPHOPMUSICED presenting successful strategies on enacting hip-hop in music classrooms. 

JUNIOR JAZZ ACADEMY ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Program dates:  July 11th – 16th, 2016 at the Juilliard School.

Application deadline:  June 1st, 2016.  

ABOUT THE PROGRAM  Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Junior Jazz Academy at the Juilliard School is a week-long intensive for students entering 6th, 7th, or 8th grade that have at least one year of experience with jazz.  Students learn through small and large ensembles and classes Jazz Masters, Jazz Language, Ensemble, Private Lesson, and Master Classes. The JJA faculty is comprised of accomplished jazz musicians, deeply committed to connecting with today’s youth through innovative teaching and mentoring techniques.

For more information, contact JJAInfo@jazz.org, or call 212-258-9947.