1st Edition
Teen Spirits Music And Identity In Media Education
230 Pages
by
Routledge
180 Pages
by
Routledge
180 Pages
by
Routledge
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Relating to both the practice of teaching media studies and also to theoretical questions within media and cultural studies, this study examines pop music, media studies and the micro-cultural politics of adolescence. It argues that media education has neglected pop music, and that, as something of enormous significance in the lives of young people, it merits a serious place in the field.; The... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Youth, Music and Media Education; Chapter 2 Questions of Agency and Adolescence; Chapter 3 Classroom Research: Contexts and Identities; Chapter 4 Knowledge about Music?; Chapter 5 Transient, Tactical Knowledge; Chapter 6 Classroom Subjects; Chapter 7 Live Through This …; Chapter 8 Endtroducing;
Biography
Chris Richards
'Teen Spirits is an excellent book on teaching pop music and a comprehensive, if demanding, study of a vast range of issues.' - The English & Media Magazine
'Richard's findings are fascinating in themselves and add something of great value to our understanding of how music knowledge and notions of hipness are used to establish identity and relations of power within the classroom and between adult-youth groups.' - Peter McLuskie, Screen
