Popular Music in the Classroom: Essays for Instructors

Contents

• 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