Popular Music in the Classroom: Essays for Instructors
- Editor: Whitt, David
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$48.25Contents
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments-vi
- Introduction (David Whitt)-1
- Part 1: Popular Music History and Genres
- Highway 61: Alan Lomax and the Mythology of the Road in American Folk Music (Raymond Blanton)-7
- "There is no revolution without songs": Teaching Latin
- American Resistance Music in the Spanish Curriculum (Eunice Rojas)-23
- Teaching the Music of Sunshine and Noir California: From "California Dreamin'" to "Straight Outta Compton" (Shawn Schwaller)-38
- Remembering Tomorrow: Exploring the Deeper Transatlantic
- Story of the Birth of the Psychedelic Sixties (Tom Zlabinger)-53
- Globalizing Jamaican Music: From Reggae to New Wave (William M. Knoblauch)-72
- Teaching Black Music as a Living Tradition: Pedagogically Connecting the Past to the Present (Justin Patch)-85
- Part 2: Artists and Icons
- Good Rockin' in the Classroom: Teaching Elvis Presley and Popular Music (Jay Scott Chipman)-103
- Teaching the Beatles! (Jeff Mohr)-116
- People, Hell and Angels: The Sociocultural Contributions to the Rise and Demise of Jimi Hendrix (Ignatius Calabria)-129
- Songs of Ascent: Teaching the History, Music and Activism of U2 (David Whitt)-146
- 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)-163
- Patriarchy, Cross-Dressing, Agency and Violence: Women and the Pedagogical Opportunities in Heavy Metal (Daniel Guberman)-178
- Music and Protest: Dissecting and Creating Social and Political Music (Michael W. McFarland)-194
- Can Bro-Country Kill Your Parents? Using Shifting Musical Taste to Explore the Relationship of Youth and Parent Cultures (Charles R. Warner)-207
- Game-Based Learning in the Popular Music Classroom (Brian Robison)-222
- About the Contributors-243
- Index-245