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University Academic Publishes New Edited Volume on Popular Music Education
Apr 4, 2019

Summary	Dr Zack Moir, lecturer in music, has just published his new edited volume ’The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education: Perspectives and Practices’, which features chapters from three other members of the music team, Bryden Stillie, Renée Stefanie, and John Hails. This book draws together current thinking and practice on popular music education through a series of unique chapters from authors working at the forefront of music education, and explores the ways in which an international group of music educators each approach popular music education.
People	Renée Stefanie John Hails Zack Moir Bryden Stillie
Outputs	The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education: Perspectives and Practices
Org Units	School of Arts and Creative Industries
Research Areas	Music Education
Research Centres/Groups	Applied Music Research Centre
URL	https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-bloomsbury-handbook-of-popular-music-education-9781350049413/

Music students take on trans-atlantic music composition project with students in New Jersey
Jan 28, 2019

Summary	Zack Moir and Bryden Stillie from music have, in collaboration with Andy Krikun from Bergen Community College in New Jersey, USA, launched an international songwriting/composition project. Each of the first years on the BA Popular Music programme here at Edinburgh Napier University, will team up with students from the Songwriting programme at Bergen Community College to compose and produce music using the web-based production software 'Soundtrap'. This allows students to collaborate in the composition and production of new music, and to produce professional recordings with people on either side of the Atlantic, without having to leave their respective locations. This means that students from both institutions have the opportunity to expand their professional network and work with people who they would be unlikely to meet, otherwise. Working in this way also reduces the need for travel and this Moir, Stillie, and Krikun will use this creative project as the basis for a pedagogical research project that will explore issues surrounding creativity, collaboration, inclusion and international partnerships. This work will be presented at the Association of Popular Music Educators conference at New York University in June of this year. Soundtrap have supported the project by providing free licences for all of our students, and they have asked us to provide a report on the outcomes of the project.
People	Zack Moir Bryden Stillie
Org Units	School of Arts and Creative Industries
Research Areas	Music Education
Themes	Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Applied Music Research Centre