When is a Drummer not a Drummer? An innovative pedagogic approach to developing coordination, musicianship and creativity through electronic drum performance
Presentation / Conference
Stillie, B. (2017, June)
When is a Drummer not a Drummer? An innovative pedagogic approach to developing coordination, musicianship and creativity through electronic drum performance. Paper presented at Association of Popular Music Education Conference
When is a Drummer not a Drummer? An innovative pedagogic approach to developing coordination, musicianship and creativity through electronic drum performance.
The use of elec...
Learning to Create and Creating to Learn: The Importance of Popular Music Composition in Popular Music Education
Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2017, June)
Learning to Create and Creating to Learn: The Importance of Popular Music Composition in Popular Music Education. Paper presented at Association of Popular Music Education Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado
This session will focus on Popular Music Composition (PMC) in undergraduate popular music degrees. The presenter will outline several important issues raised by students of PM...
Popular Music Making and Young People: Leisure, Education and Industry
Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2017, June)
Popular Music Making and Young People: Leisure, Education and Industry. Paper presented at Association of Popular Music Educators Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado
This presentation explores concepts of 'leisure' and 'musical activity'
by way of contextualizing the ways in which young people engage with music making as leisure. As such ...
Following the Fairlight CMI and its Users: The Digital Reproduction of 'Real' Instruments and Sounds
Presentation / Conference
Harkins, P. (2017, June)
Following the Fairlight CMI and its Users: The Digital Reproduction of 'Real' Instruments and Sounds. Paper presented at Galpin Society/AMIS Conference on Musical Instruments, The University of Edinburgh
This paper will focus on the Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument (CMI), which is generally regarded as the first commercially available digital sampler. However, its designe...
'The Rest is History': Writing a History of Music Technologies and their Users
Presentation / Conference
Harkins, P. (2017, March)
'The Rest is History': Writing a History of Music Technologies and their Users. Presented at Burgundy School of Business Research Seminar, University of Burgundy, Dijon
The socio-musical practice of sampling is closely associated with the re-use of pre-existing sound recordings and the technological processes of looping. These practices, base...
Continental Drift: 50 years of jazz from Europe
Conference Proceeding
Medboe, H., Bares, W., Webster, E., Frost Fadnes, P., Inglis, C., Kahr, M., …Heyman, M. (2017)
Continental Drift: 50 years of jazz from Europe. In Z. Moir, & C. Atton (Eds.), Continental Drift: 50 years of jazz from Europe - Conference Proceedings. , (v-vi
Following popular exposure in France to the proto-jazz of James Reese Europe and his 369th “Harlem Hellfighters” Infantry Regiment during the latter years of WW1, the jazz bug...
Learning to Create and Creating to Learn: Considering the Value of Popular Music Education
Book
Moir, Z. (2017)
Learning to Create and Creating to Learn: Considering the Value of Popular Music Education. In J. Williams, & K. Williams (Eds.), The Singer Songwriter HandbookNew York: Bloomsbury Publishing
No abstract available.
Routes to Higher Popular Music Education: Curricular Alignment, Autodidacticism, and Access.
Presentation / Conference
Stillie, B., & Moir, Z. (2017, February)
Routes to Higher Popular Music Education: Curricular Alignment, Autodidacticism, and Access. Paper presented at Music Research Seminar Series
The presence of popular music has, in recent decades, ‘grown in schools, colleges and universities’. While the authors are encouraged by the increase in popular music in form...
Routes to Higher Popular Music Education: Curricular Alignment, Autodidacticism, and Access.
Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z., & Stillie, B. (2017, February)
Routes to Higher Popular Music Education: Curricular Alignment, Autodidacticism, and Access. Paper presented at Edinburgh Napier University Innovations in Teaching and Supporting Learning Teaching Fellows Conference
The presence of popular music has, in recent decades, ‘grown in schools, colleges and universities’. While the authors are encouraged by the increase in popular music in form...
Haphazard Pathways to Higher Popular Music Education in the UK
Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2017, February)
Haphazard Pathways to Higher Popular Music Education in the UK. Paper presented at Edinburgh Napier University Teaching Fellows Conference, Edinburgh
No abstract available.