Teen Spirits: Music And Identity In Media Education (Media, Education and Culture) - Hardcover

Chris Richards

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1857288580 ISBN 13: 9781857288582

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

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 author provides accounts of media studies in action, including detailed accounts of classroom discussions, interviews with students and teachers, examples of students' work and their biographical reflections. He links this to broader debates both within cultural studies and around the place of pop music in young people's lives.; "Teen Spirits" should be of interest to students of media and cultural studies, as well as to practicing teachers, and readers with an interest in questions of youth and identity.

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Review

Teen Spirits is an excellent book on teaching pop music and a comprehensive, if demanding, stdy 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

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1857288580
• ISBN 13: 9781857288582
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 180