Sound Identities
Subtitle: Popular Music and the Cultural Politics of Education
Contributors: Cameron McCarthy (Editor); Glenn Hudak (Editor); Shawn Miklaucic (Editor); Paula Saukko (Editor)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing; Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften; Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers; Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter
Published: November 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 490
ISBN-13: 9780820441399
Subjects: Popular Culture - General; Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal; Social Aspects Of Music; Music; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Group identity; History and criticism; Music and youth; Music in education; Popular Music
Description: "Sound Identities offers sustained reflection on the sociocultural implications of youth consumption of popular music such as rap, heavy metal, calypso, and salsa.".

"If it can be argued that young people construct their identities through the social formation of boundaries, then it is important to uncover how social, cultural, and political boundaries are created and lived through popular music. This is both a pedagogical and political concern.

In Sound Identities, contributors pursue these themes throughout: across the terrains of the American nation; across the global dynamics of postcolonial music history; and ultimately back into the micropolitics of the pedagogy of musical affect in the classroom. The eighteen essays in this volume foreground a wide array of theoretical and empirical research that looks at the dynamic role that music plays at the level of the everyday lives of today's school youth."--BOOK JACKET.