Name: Responding to the challenges of liquid modernity
Start: 2026-06-05T16:00:00-0400
End: 2026-06-05T16:25:00-0400

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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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Responding to the challenges of liquid modernity

Friday June 5, 2026 4:00pm - 4:25pm EDT

Volpe 106

How do educators face recent changes in personal identities, relationships to work, and formation of communities, institutions, and social bonds? This research presentation applies the theory of “liquid modernity” by the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman (2013) to popular music education at all levels to answer this question.

Speakers

Joseph Michael Abramo

Associate Professor of Music Education, University of Connecticut

Dr. Joseph Abramo is an educator with 24 years of experience and is currently a professor of music education at UConn where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses. He has eight years of teaching middle and high school experience in New York State, where he taught concert bands... Read More →

Friday June 5, 2026 4:00pm - 4:25pm EDT
Volpe 106 Volpe Building, San Amaro Drive, Coral Gables, FL, USA

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