Teen Spirits: Music And Identity In Media Education (Media, by Chris Richards

By Chris Richards

When it comes to either the perform of training media experiences and in addition to theoretical questions inside of media and cultural stories, this learn examines pop song, media experiences and the micro-cultural politics of early life. It argues that media schooling has missed pop tune, and that, as anything of large importance within the lives of children, it benefits a significant position within the field.; the writer offers money owed of media experiences in motion, together with unique bills of lecture room discussions, interviews with scholars and academics, examples of scholars' paintings and their biographical reflections. He hyperlinks this to broader debates either inside of cultural stories and round the position of dad song in younger people's lives.; "Teen Spirits" will be of curiosity to scholars of media and cultural experiences, in addition to to working towards academics, and readers with an curiosity in questions of minor and identification.

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The terms inherent and delineated are awkward, letting in too many troublesome connotations which then have to be methodically expelled. Inherent seems to imply that meanings are located in the musical text itself, independent of audiences and their contexts of reception. 10 Like the uneasy history of the concepts of denotation and connotation in visual semiotics, inherent and delineated meaning emerge as a pair to be always accompanied by their disclaimers, reiterated warnings that inherent meaning only refers to ‘a formal, or logical, moment’ which does not include ‘the meaning of music as a historical object’ (Green, 1988:26).

Here, for example, it is appropriate to add a little more to the autobiographical notes presented in the previous chapter. There is a relation between the production of the present text and the coincidence of my own youth/ adolescence with schooling in an institution concerned to inculcate traditional middle-class culture and to emulate the regimes of masculinity associated with the elite public schools. At 15 and 16, in 1967 and 1968, I was intensely preoccupied with being elsewhere, locating myself in a cultural space defined by the fading of American ‘beat’ writing, much of it dating from the early 1950s, into the more immediate allure of West Coast ‘counter-culture’.

25 Teen Spirits Visits to radio stations and record company offices are organised, and visiting speakers from the industry are invited to talk to the pupils. Specific topics include: the development of recording equipment and techniques; the organisation and management of a performer; the marketing organisation of record companies; the disc jockey; ‘bootlegging’ and ‘piracy’ (Farmer in Vulliamy and Lee, 1982b:59). ’ In these respects, music education did offer important precedents for media studies, itself largely sustained by the mostly teacher initiated CSE Mode 3 in that period.

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