Alex Adams

Dr. Alex Adams is a music educator with more than 20 years of experience. Teaching in contexts as varied as individual private studio instruction, k-12 classrooms, large community music ensembles, and university undergraduate and graduate programs Alex brings his love of music and his passion for creative music making to everything he does. He currently serves as a teaching assistant professor of music education as well as music education area coordinator in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas. An active clinician and presenter, Alex has delivered sessions in songwriting to state and national conference audiences and has presented research at national and international conferences. As a teaching artist with the Documentary Songwriters association Alex works with collaborators to take stories from their lives and transform them into songs which document lived experiences through a collaborative songwriting process. Alex has also developed materials and methods for  bringing documentary songwriting into the k-12 classroom.  Alex holds a Ph.D. in Music Learning at teaching from Arizona State University, his research centers around music education philosophy, specifically how music education navigates epistemic tensions in how it is we know and teach as well as music teacher education practices, music technology for music education, songwriting and composition in music education, and value discourses of music education.