MEMECO x APME International Conference 2026

This session offers a Black intracultural perspective on allyship in music education, using Black Music Aesthetics as a conceptual framework. Through lived experience and musicological analysis, it examines how timbre, delivery mechanics, and style reveal performative allyship and proposes pathways toward authentic, justice-centered practice.

Imagine being at a Korean party, lost—until a familiar melody emerges. What do I feel? My project integrates migrant students’ native musical repertoires into Italian L2 learning. Through storytelling, songwriting, and embodied workshops, I show how music fosters motivation, identity, and intercultural dialogue, offering a replicable inclusive model.

The paper examined instrumental learning processes in students with dyslexia and dyscalculia through two qualitative case studies in Italy and Germany. Focusing on an inclusive pedagogical intervention, the study provides practical insights into adapting instrumental teaching to support students with special educational needs across different educational settings. The paper examined instrumental learning processes in students with dyslexia and dyscalculia through two qualitative case studies in Italy and Germany. Focusing on an inclusive pedagogical intervention, the study provides practical insights into adapting instrumental teaching to support students with special educational needs across different educational settings. 

The paper proposes an inclusive teaching model for secondary schools based on the Loop Station, inspired by the experience of one-man bands. The laboratory-based, error-free approach fosters improvisation, creativity, listening, self-correction, and cooperation, reducing individual protagonism and supporting the participation of students with Special Educational Needs in the daily school context.

Poeta, narratore, critico letterario, linguista, studioso di folclore e di poesia dialettale, Ottaviano Giannangeli (1923-2017) analizza, in una lunga serie di studi, le differenze tra canto popolare e canzone abruzzese d’autore, distinguendone le origini storiche e le caratteristiche tecniche, anche alla luce della sua esperienza come autore di canzoni e organizzatore di eventi musicali. Studiando sia le testimonianze letterarie (come la famosa Tutte le funtanelle riportata da D’Annunzio nel suo Trionfo della morte) che le raccolte musicali di Francesco Paolo Tosti, Ettore Montanaro e Tommaso Bruni, Giannangeli riconosce l’embrione del canto popolare abruzzese nello stornello o nello stornello doppio (caratterizzato da una struttura monostrofica e monotematica) che poi vede la sua trasformazione in canzone abruzzese d’autore, grazie a musicisti come Antonio Di Jorio e Guido Albanese, mediante l’aggiunta di un ritornello che va a sviluppare e a risolvere, sia poeticamente che musicalmente, quanto enunciato nella strofa (struttura dunque non più monotematica ma bitematica). 

The research investigates singing habits and repertoires for early childhood in family contexts in Italy, comparing them with the proposals of music educators. A profound misalignment is highlighted, which may nevertheless prompt reflection on the role and social potential of music education as proposed by professionals and the media.
The research investigates singing habits and repertoires for early childhood in family contexts in Italy, comparing them with the proposals of music educators. A profound misalignment is highlighted, which may nevertheless prompt reflection on the role and social potential of music education as proposed by professionals and the media.

In this session, I will explore the question: Why is it so difficult to integrate certain musical practices into music lessons? In workshops and training courses, I have repeatedly encountered resistance to digital music production in music education. How can this aversion be explained?

Lo studio analizza l’impatto ambientale dello spettacolo dal vivo, evidenziando fonti di inquinamento e relative emissioni di CO₂. Propone soluzioni sostenibili, tra cui energie rinnovabili, trasporti a basse emissioni e tecnologie audio innovative. Attraverso casi studio di concerti green, dimostra il ruolo dell’innovazione nel promuovere modelli performativi sostenibili e responsabili.

Childhood is marked by a vivid imaginative engagement with sound, rhythm, and movementthrough which children begin to communicate and make sense of their environment. Drawing onresearch on early musicality and language development, this presentation explores therelationship between music, multilingual development, and translanguaging in early childhood.Because music and language development seems to be deeply intertwined in early childhooddevelopment, playing with music can become crucial in supporting communication, emotionalattunement, and early linguistic development, particularly for children growing up with morethan one language. Building on translanguaging theory, in this presentation I consider whetherand how music can function as a translanguaging space in early childhood settings, reflecting ondata from three early childhood contexts: multilingual music classes in a university setting and ina center for refugee and asylum seekers; and interviews collected with Italian expatriate families.The aim is to illustrate how children and adults use singing, chanting, movement, playfulvocalizations along with folk and current pop songs from their culture of origin to navigate andintegrate linguistic and cultural resources.Considering the contemporary musical landscapes, shaped by globalization and digital media, itis critical to analyze children's everyday musical experiences, and understand how music maysupport the development of their identities as individuals navigating diverse linguistic andcultural environments. A comprehensive analysis of the most salient aspects involved in theconstruction of translanguaging musical spaces in early childhood contexts will serve todemonstrate how musical play enables young children, along with the significant adults aroundthem, to explore multiple languages, exercise agency, and participate actively in shared meaning-making practices. The presentation will further explore the role that popular music and culturallyrelevant songs play within the complex multilingual and multicultural contexts in which youngchildren are currently immersed.

Have you heard Bluegrass-Grunge, Ska-EDM, or Funk-Irish Jig? This research presentation explores undergraduate music education majors’ experiences, discoveries, and musical products that influenced their perspectives on learning approaches, non-institutionalized musics, culturally valid performances, and intercultural competencies.

The study explores the role of TikTok in Gen Z’s identity construction and their artistic-musical expressiveness. Using digital ethnography and thematic analysis of PoV videos, it examines short musical performances to highlight their community-building dynamics, through music, and its implications in the field of music education.

An action research case study showing how structured, activity-based tasks in aSound Design and Creative Synthesis module increased engagement and improvedassessment submission. Attendees will gain evidence-based strategies to energisepopular music technology teaching and foster sustained, student-centredparticipation.

This roundtable builds on the submitted abstract and previews forthcoming analyses. Alongside psychological resources across conservatory pathways, discussion will address popular and classical music training, assessment practices, equity and inclusion, gendered experiences, relational climates, wellbeing indicators, and institutional cultures, drawing on the broader survey datasets to frame future research directions ahead of the conference.