Name: Resisting the Employability Agenda
Start: 2026-06-03T15:00:00-0400
End: 2026-06-03T15:15:00-0400

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Join us June 4–6 at the Frost School of Music, University of Miami, as we celebrate the rhythms, relationships, and revolutions shaping popular music education.

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Resisting the Employability Agenda

Wednesday June 3, 2026 3:00pm - 3:15pm EDT

Virtual

There is a tendency in popular music education (PME) to focus solely on training students for employment within the music industries. However, how does this vocational focus negatively impact students? In this presentation, I critically examine PME’s preoccupation with entrepreneurialism and highlight how we might resist this vocational trend.

Speakers

Justin D. Fraser

PhD Student, University of British Columbia

Justin D. Fraser (he/him) is an educator, musician, and PhD student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Drawing on critical, poststructural, and anti-colonial theoretical perspectives, his research interests lie at the nexus of (popular) music education, social... Read More →

Wednesday June 3, 2026 3:00pm - 3:15pm EDT
Virtual

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