Candice D. Mattio

Dr. Candice D. Mattio is Assistant Professor of Music Teaching and Learning, and Coordinator of the Popular Music Teaching and Learning graduate degree program at the USC Thornton School of Music. Her work focuses on music technology, creative thinking, and socio-political issues and practices in popular music education. Her scholarship is published in Arts Education Policy Review, Journal of Popular Music Education, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, and in the books Places and Purposes of Popular Music Education: Perspectives from the Field (Intellect), and The Modern Band Handbook (Oxford). Her work has been awarded by the Conklin Forum on Social Justice in Music Teacher Education, the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, and awarded by several grant foundations. Dr. Mattio also serves as the Vice President for the Association for Popular Music Education and was a clinician for the CMEA’s inaugural Multi-Music Festival. She was formerly co-chair for the FMEA’s Contemporary Media Committee, under which she also co-led the Digital Music Showcase and the FMEA Popular Music Collective, which was the first all-state-level popular music endeavor in the U.S.