Pop-Culture Pedagogy in the Music Classroom
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Pop-Culture Pedagogy in the Music Classroom

Teaching Tools from American Idol to YouTube

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eBook - ePub

Pop-Culture Pedagogy in the Music Classroom

Teaching Tools from American Idol to YouTube

About this book

Teachers the world over are discovering the importance and benefits of incorporating popular culture into the music classroom. The cultural prevalence and the students' familiarity with recorded music, videos, games, and other increasingly accessible multimedia materials help enliven course content and foster interactive learning and participation. Pop-Culture Pedagogy in the Music Classroom: Teaching Tools from American Idol to YouTube provides ideas and techniques for teaching music classes using elements of popular culture that resonate with students' everyday lives. From popular songs and genres to covers, mixes, and mashups; from video games such as Dance Dance Revolution and Guitar Hero to television shows like American Idol, this exciting collection offers pedagogical models for incorporating pop culture and its associated technologies into a wide variety of music courses.

Biamonte has collected well-rounded essays that consider a variety of applications. After an introduction, the essays are organized in 3 sections. The first addresses general tools and technology that can be incorporated into almost any music class: sound-mixing techniques and the benefits of using iPods and YouTube. The middle section uses popular songs, video games, or other aspects of pop culture to demonstrate music-theory topics or to develop ear-training and rhythmic skills. The final section examines the musical, lyrical, or visual content in popular songs, genres, or videos as a point of departure for addressing broader issues and contexts. Each chapter contains notes and a bibliography, and two comprehensive appendixes list popular song examples for teaching harmony, melody, and rhythm. Two indexes cross-reference the material by title and by general subject. While written with college and secondary-school teachers in mind, the methods and materials presented here can be adapted to any educational level.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction
  3. Part I:General Tools
  4. Chapter 1: Appreciating the Mix: Teaching Music Listening Skills through Sound-Mixing Techniques
  5. Chapter 2: Pod-Logic: A Guide to Getting the Most out of Your iPod in the Music Classroom
  6. Chapter 3: Global Connections via YouTube: Internet Video as a Teaching and Learning Tool
  7. Part II: Teaching Musicianship and Music Theory
  8. Chapter 4: Popular Music in the College Music Theory Class: Rhythm and Meter
  9. Chapter 5: Teaching Traditional Music Theory with Popular Songs: Pitch Structures
  10. Chapter 6: Using Pop-Culture Tools to Reinforce Learning of Basic Music Theory as Transformations
  11. Chapter 7: On the Integration of Aural Skills and Formal Analysis through Popular Music
  12. Chapter 8: Musical Representation in the Video Games Guitar Hero and Rock Band
  13. Chapter 9: DDR at the Crossroads: A Report on a Pilot Study to Integrate Music Video-Game Technology into the Aural-Skills Classroom
  14. Chapter 10: Turntablism: A Vehicle for Connecting Community and School Music Making and Learning
  15. Part III: Teaching Music Analysis and Criticism
  16. Chapter 11: Using American Idol to Introduce Music Criticism
  17. Chapter 12: An Analytic Model for Examining Cover Songs and Their Sources
  18. Chapter 13: Cotextuality in Music Video: Covering and Sampling in the Cover Art Video of “Umbrella”
  19. Chapter 14: Vocal Practices and Constructions of Identity in Rap: A Case Study of Young Jeezy’s “Soul Survivor”
  20. Chapter 15: Crunkology: Teaching the Southern Hip-Hop Aesthetic
  21. Chapter 16: Mashup Poetics as Pedagogical Practice1
  22. About the Authors