Paul Farmer MBE | |
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 2009 Election photo | |
| Born | April 1950 Woodford Green, Essex |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Retired |
| Known for | Devising the first UK school exam in pop music |
| Website | www |
Paul Stephen Farmer MBE is a retired British educationalist who developed the use of pop music in school music education in the 1970s, and is reputed to be the first to devise a public examination in the UK exclusively in pop music.[1] He wrote several music education books and became a London comprehensive school head teacher at the age of 33.[2]
- ^ A Place for Pop, Times Educational Supplement 16.7.1976, pp 31 & 33; Pop Music in the Secondary School, Music in Education (Novello & Co Ltd) Sept/Oct 1976 vol 40 no 381 ISSN 0027-433X page 217 (also mentioned by Lucy Green on pg 151 of Music on deaf ears, 1988 Manchester University Press 0-7190-2647-4); Pop Music in School Studies, Australia Daily News, 19 May 1976
- ^ "About Paul Farmer". PaulFarmer.com. 7 March 2007. Retrieved 24 September 2011.