Bulletin of Empirical Music Education Research

About the Journal

Bulletin of empirical music education Research (b:em) offers an international platform for the publication of high-quality empirical studies, meta-studies and methodological reflections from the entire field of music education research. The international open access journal with double-blind peer review is free of charge for both authors and readers.

Current Issue

Vol. 18 No. 1 (2026): Bulletin of empirical music education research (Special Edition "Digitalisation in Music Education")

Published: 2026-03-27

Editorial

Editorial Digitalisation in Music Education (Vol. 18(1))

Valerie Krupp, Thade Buchborn, Josef Schaubruch
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Single Contributions

On the use of digital media and further training needs in the subjects of music and sports. An exploratory analysis.

Valerie Krupp, Helena Rudi, Josef Schaubruch, Luisa Heyn

1-21
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Music lessons in elementary school as an analog “safe space”? A teacher survey on the status of digital media in primary school (music) lessons.

Lina Oravec, Valerie Krupp, Konstanze Müller

1-26
- pdf (Deutsch)
Actors, social worlds, positions: Digitalisation in music classrooms from the perspective of teachers

Johannes Treß

1-16
- pdf (Deutsch)
Music teachers navigating the tension between digital innovation and teaching practice Insights into everyday theories, norms and implicit logics

Thade Buchborn, Annika Endres, Johannes Treß

1-14
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“...although I think we can all agree that this will never replace playing an instrument” Teachers’ action-guiding knowledge with regard to digitalisation processes in music lessons

Jonas Völker, Esther Hall, Matthias Krebs, Moritz Kuck, Veronika Phung

1-17
- pdf (Deutsch)
From “Push the Keys” to “Touch the Screen”? Tracing the Competition of Things in Music On the Sociomateriality of Introducing the GarageBand App into School Music

Marc Godau

1-52
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Bulletin of Empirical Music Education Research

About the Journal

Current Issue

Editorial

Editorial Digitalisation in Music Education (Vol. 18(1))

Single Contributions

On the use of digital media and further training needs in the subjects of music and sports. An exploratory analysis.

Music lessons in elementary school as an analog “safe space”? A teacher survey on the status of digital media in primary school (music) lessons.

Actors, social worlds, positions: Digitalisation in music classrooms from the perspective of teachers

Music teachers navigating the tension between digital innovation and teaching practice Insights into everyday theories, norms and implicit logics

“...although I think we can all agree that this will never replace playing an instrument” Teachers’ action-guiding knowledge with regard to digitalisation processes in music lessons

From “Push the Keys” to “Touch the Screen”? Tracing the Competition of Things in Music On the Sociomateriality of Introducing the GarageBand App into School Music

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