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‘Teach you to rock’? Popular music in the university music department

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Alf Björnberg
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During the last decades in most Western countries music education on all levels has undergone significant changes. In response to changes in the musical field in society at large, various popular music styles, previously almost totally neglected in institutional forms of music teaching based on Western art music, have been given increasing significance in the curricula of music education. This development has not, however, taken place without controversies. In most popular music genres the theoretical framework, learning principles and aims of musical practices differ in significant respects from those of the regulated activities of traditional institutions of music education, and the successful integration of popular genres into such institutions requires that these differences be acknowledged and resolved rather than ignored.

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Popular Music , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , January 1993 , pp. 69 - 77
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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