The Pop and Jazz Platform Meeting 2017 (PJP) took place at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London on 17th and 18th February under the title Cross the Bar Line – "It ain't what you do it's the way that you do it"
(© Sy Oliver and Trummy Young 1939 … Bananarama 1981). Participants discussed how to educate musicians to combine craft and integrity in their music-making and to think beyond borders with a readiness both to engage with commercial structures and to assume the role of cultural citizens and leaders; they also discussed how to use the challenge of audience engagement as a creative spur to re-thinking musical languages and performing contexts.
Curious about what happened at the PJP 2017? Please find a video of the inspiring Keynote Speaker Dominic Murcott from Trinity Laban “What Kind of Music Do You Like? Art and Innocence in the Conservatoire” in the Documents section of the PJP 2017 webpage. Plenary presentations, as well group discussions in World Café format addressed the following issues which have an impact on the daily life of artists and educators: social media, community music, bebop in 21st century, world music and genre issues and audience/performer relations. More topics related to Pop&Jazz education proposed by the platform participants were also addressed in breakout groups during the Bar Camp session. The Conference also featured the presence of many students, most of which took part in the Trinity Laban Conservatoires’s CoLab Project as members of the “Brexchange Orchestra”. Finally, meetings of the VoCon (Vocal Teachers) and World/Folk Music subgroups have been also organize in the framework of the conference.
The complete programme, as well as the slide shows projected during the conference, is available on the PJP 2017 webpage. Should you be interested in knowing more about the conference, we warmly encourage you to read the interesting and reflective wrap up by Evert Bischopp Boele.
This event was the last one of a series of three PJP conferences addressing the topic of audience engagement in the framework of the EU funded project FULL SCORE. By the end of this summer, a final Bulletin presenting the results of this journey through audience engagement will be published on the AEC website.
Last but not least, the AEC would like to thank Stefan Heckel, from the University of Performing Arts in Graz, Austria, for being a committed and forward looking chairman for the Pop and Jazz Platform from 2012 to 2017. We wish to the new chairman Lars Andersson from Malmö Academy of Music all the best for this new challenge!
The next gathering of the Pop and Jazz Platform will take place at the Conservatorio di Musica “L. D’Annunzio” in Pescara, Italy, on 9-10 February 2018. We hope to see you there!
Curious about what happened at the PJP 2017? Please find a video of the inspiring Keynote Speaker Dominic Murcott from Trinity Laban “What Kind of Music Do You Like? Art and Innocence in the Conservatoire” in the Documents section of the PJP 2017 webpage. Plenary presentations, as well group discussions in World Café format addressed the following issues which have an impact on the daily life of artists and educators: social media, community music, bebop in 21st century, world music and genre issues and audience/performer relations. More topics related to Pop&Jazz education proposed by the platform participants were also addressed in breakout groups during the Bar Camp session. The Conference also featured the presence of many students, most of which took part in the Trinity Laban Conservatoires’s CoLab Project as members of the “Brexchange Orchestra”. Finally, meetings of the VoCon (Vocal Teachers) and World/Folk Music subgroups have been also organize in the framework of the conference.
The complete programme, as well as the slide shows projected during the conference, is available on the PJP 2017 webpage. Should you be interested in knowing more about the conference, we warmly encourage you to read the interesting and reflective wrap up by Evert Bischopp Boele.
This event was the last one of a series of three PJP conferences addressing the topic of audience engagement in the framework of the EU funded project FULL SCORE. By the end of this summer, a final Bulletin presenting the results of this journey through audience engagement will be published on the AEC website.
Last but not least, the AEC would like to thank Stefan Heckel, from the University of Performing Arts in Graz, Austria, for being a committed and forward looking chairman for the Pop and Jazz Platform from 2012 to 2017. We wish to the new chairman Lars Andersson from Malmö Academy of Music all the best for this new challenge!
The next gathering of the Pop and Jazz Platform will take place at the Conservatorio di Musica “L. D’Annunzio” in Pescara, Italy, on 9-10 February 2018. We hope to see you there!
