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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...

Considering the Value of Popular Music Education.

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2017, January)
Considering the Value of Popular Music Education. Presented at Invited Guest Lecture
No abstract available.

Haphazard Pathways: Routes to Higher Popular Music Education and Impact on Curricula

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2016, July)
Haphazard Pathways: Routes to Higher Popular Music Education and Impact on Curricula. Paper presented at International Society of Music Education World Conference
No abstract available.

Young People and Popular Music Making: Leisure, Education, and Industry

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2015, September)
Young People and Popular Music Making: Leisure, Education, and Industry. Paper presented at SACI Research Conference
No abstract available.

Reframing popular music composition as performance-centred practice

Journal Article
Moir, Z., & Medbøe, H. (2015)
Reframing popular music composition as performance-centred practice. Journal of Music, Technology and Education, 8(2), 147-161. https://doi.org/10.1386/jmte.8.2.147_1
This article reports on a qualitative study of four undergraduate students specializing in popular music composition, and examines links and overlaps between three related are...

Improvisation: Practical approaches for composers.

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2015, February)
Improvisation: Practical approaches for composers. Presented at Invited Guest Workshop
1 day workshop.

Mesmer EP

Digital Artefact
Moir, Z. (2014)
Mesmer EP
No abstract available.

An Ecology of Music Making: Participation, Pressures, and Progressions

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2014, September)
An Ecology of Music Making: Participation, Pressures, and Progressions. Presented at Creativities, Musicalities, and Entrepreneurships
No abstract available.

'Just Like Clarence' or 'Just Like Jimi': Issues surrounding creativity, originality, and pedagogy in pop and rock improvisation

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2014, April)
'Just Like Clarence' or 'Just Like Jimi': Issues surrounding creativity, originality, and pedagogy in pop and rock improvisation. Paper presented at Improvisation: Educational Perspectives
No abstract available.

Popular Music Pedagogy: Assessment, Evaluation, and Context

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z., & McLaughlin, S. (2014, March)
Popular Music Pedagogy: Assessment, Evaluation, and Context. Paper presented at International Festival for Artistic Innovation
No abstract available.

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Dr Zack Moir Elected to the Board of Directors of the Prestigious Association for Popular Music Education

26 June 2019
Dr Zack Moir from Music has been elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the Association for Popular Music Education, which is an international organisation with a mission to promote and advance...

University Academic Publishes New Edited Volume on Popular Music Education

3 April 2019
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 mem...

University Academics and Students Engage in Live Improvisation Over Networks at Prestigious International Conference

2 April 2019
Can a network performance be defined, planned and executed in 90 minutes? Teams of attendees and remote performers at the Network Performing Arts Production Workshop in Prague were tasked with creatin...

Music students take on trans-atlantic music composition project with students in New Jersey

28 January 2019
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...

Edinburgh Napier academic uses personal experience of living with diabetes to inspire composition

3 July 2018
An Edinburgh Napier academic is using his personal experience of living with diabetes to fuel his passion for making music. Dr Zack Moir, lecturer in popular music at the University, was diagnosed wit...

World First for Remote Transatlantic Real-Time Album Recording

19 September 2017
The first notes have been played in a project that will see an album recorded by musicians at opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean - in real-time. In what is believed to be a world first, Dr Paul Ferg...

Lecturer in Music is Editor of Recently 'Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education'

24 January 2017
Dr Zack Moir from music is one of the editors of the recently published 'Routledge Research Handbook of Popular Music Education', which is a new edited volume containing contributions from a wide rang...