This is the second volume in the series that documents the 19th edition of the biennial
conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. The volume contains
contributions on the variety of musical genres from all over the world. Authors engage with the
role of popular music in contemporary music education as well as definitions and
conceptualizations of the notion of 'popular' in different contexts. Other issues discussed in
this volume include methodologies the structure and interpretations of popular music scenes
genres and repertoires approaches to education in this area popular music studies outside the
Anglophone world as well as examinations of discursive and technological aspects of numerous
popular music phenomena.