On Wednesday 5 June 2024, W.H. Coppes will defend the doctoral thesis titled: ‘Disconnected: Stakeholder Perceptions of what Constitutes Higher Popular Music Education‘.
- Promotor
- Promotor
- Date
- Wednesday 5 Jun 2024, 13:00 - 14:30
- Type
- PhD defence
- Space
- Senate Hall
- Building
- Erasmus Building
- Location
- Campus Woudestein
Brief summary of the doctoral thesis:
Popular music within higher music education has become quite common in the past thirty years. Despite this fact, much is still unclear with regard to what popular music within higher music education actually entails. This lack of clarity extends to essential topics such as the canonization of popular music, educational aims, alignment with the labour market and the definition of popular music within the context of higher music education. Also the fact that popular music is not part of the higher arts creates even more vagueness with regard to what higher popular music education actually is, because higher music education institutes were originally founded for the preservation of the higher arts, not for popular music. In order to understand popular music in the context of higher music education, I focused on the perception of its stakeholders. In this dissertation, I explore how stakeholders in higher popular music education (students, staff, labour market actors) perceive the content and added value of higher popular music education for a successful career in music. The results show that Popular music in a higher music education context seems to have different meanings for different stakeholders. In general, Popular music within the walls of the European HMEI is probably Western art music, based on British/American popular music with a touch of local flavour. Popular music programs seemingly train their students for a Labour market similar to the one for which Western art music programs train their students.
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The public defence will begin exactly at 13.00 hrs. The doors will be closed once the public defence starts, latecomers may be able to watch on the screen outside. There is no possibility of entrance during the first part of the ceremony. Due to the solemn nature of the ceremony, children under the age of 6 are not allowed during the first part of the ceremony.
