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Popular music in the classroom : essays for instructors /

"Popular music has long been a subject of academic inquiry, with college courses taught on Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, and The Beatles, along with more contemporary artists like Beyoncé and Outkast. This collection of essays draws upon the knowledge and expertise of instructors from a variety of...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Whitt, David (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Acknowledgments
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction (David Whitt)
  • Part 1: Popular Music History and Genres
  • Highway 61: Alan Lomax and the Mythology of the Road in American Folk Music (Raymond Blanton)
  • "There is no revolution without songs": Teaching Latin American Resistance Music in the Spanish Curriculum (Eunice Rojas)
  • Teaching the Music of Sunshine and Noir California: From "California Dreamin'" to "Straight Outta Compton" (Shawn Schwaller)
  • Remembering Tomorrow: Exploring the Deeper Transatlantic Story of the Birth of the Psychedelic Sixties (Tom Zlabinger)
  • Globalizing Jamaican Music: From Reggae to New Wave (Willam M. Knoblauch)
  • Teaching Black Music as a Living Tradition: Pedagogically Connecting the Past to the Present (Justin Patch)
  • Part 2: Artists and Icons
  • Good Rockin' in the Classroom: Teaching Elvis Presley and Popular Music (Jay Scott Chipman)
  • Teaching the Beatles! (Jeff Mohr)
  • People, Hell and Angels: The Sociocultural Contributions to the Rise and Demise of Jimi Hendrix (Ignatius Calabria)
  • Songs of Ascent: Teaching the History, Music and Activism of U2 (David Whitt)
  • Part 3: Popular Music Analysis and Other Instructional Tools
  • Musical Identities: Teaching Race, Class and Gender Through Popular Music (James L. Deys and Jacob A. Dickerson)
  • Patriarchy, Cross-Dressing, Agency and Violence: Women and the Pedagogical Opportunities in Heavy Metal (Daniel Guberman)
  • Music and Protest: Dissecting and Creating Social and Political Music (Micheal W. McFarland)
  • Can Bro-Country Kill Your Parents? Using Shifting Musical Taste to Explore the Relationship of Youth and Parent Cultures (Charles R. Warner)
  • Game-Based Learning in the Popular Music Classroom (Brian Robison)
  • About the Contributors
  • Index