Learning Tunes: Pop Music in the Classroom
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| author | Moore, David Cooper |
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| contents | Learning Tunes: Pop Music in the Classroom Moore, David Cooper Music Popular Culture Media Literacy Popular music can be a rich and engaging teaching tool. Children often intuitively gain complex layers of experiential meaning more readily from music than other forms of plot-driven media where their narrow focus on literal interpretation and plot recitation can bring thoughtful conversation to a halt. However, integrating popular music in the classroom is a daunting prospect for many teachers. The author personally found that the risks associated with using popular culture as a text for media analysis are outweighed by rewards in students' personal investment, and the willingness with which they can begin, with teacher guidance, to think abstractly about representation, identity, target audience, and how interpretation can be dependent on social position and point of view. With careful lesson scaffolding and instructor direction, popular music can be a valuable tool for media literacy learning precisely because of the strong feelings, reactions, opinions, and ideas it often elicits in listeners of all ages. |
| format | Recurso educativo Open Access |
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| institution | ERIC Institute of Education Sciences |
| language | en |
| publishDate | 2011 |
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| spellingShingle | Learning Tunes: Pop Music in the Classroom Moore, David Cooper Music Popular Culture Media Literacy Learning Tunes: Pop Music in the Classroom Moore, David Cooper Music Popular Culture Media Literacy Popular music can be a rich and engaging teaching tool. Children often intuitively gain complex layers of experiential meaning more readily from music than other forms of plot-driven media where their narrow focus on literal interpretation and plot recitation can bring thoughtful conversation to a halt. However, integrating popular music in the classroom is a daunting prospect for many teachers. The author personally found that the risks associated with using popular culture as a text for media analysis are outweighed by rewards in students' personal investment, and the willingness with which they can begin, with teacher guidance, to think abstractly about representation, identity, target audience, and how interpretation can be dependent on social position and point of view. With careful lesson scaffolding and instructor direction, popular music can be a valuable tool for media literacy learning precisely because of the strong feelings, reactions, opinions, and ideas it often elicits in listeners of all ages. |
| title | Learning Tunes: Pop Music in the Classroom |
| topic | Music Popular Culture Media Literacy |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ914328 |