ABSTRACT
Popular music, despite its existence on syllabuses in various forms, is still a problem area for many music teachers. This is due to a number of factors: both the study of popular music styles and methods for teaching them are missing from many tertiary courses; the mainly art music backgrounds of many music teachers act against an understanding of popular music; there is a shortage of critical material in this area to which music teachers can refer; and an accepted model for teaching popular music has not yet developed. It is the lack of a teaching model that is the concern of this article.
