Beyond the Narrative: Considering the Larger Pedagogical Toolbox for the Popular Music Survey

  • Joanna Love University of Richmond
Keywords: music, pop, rock, pedagogy, survey, popular music, objectives, assessment, 21st Century

Abstract

This essay contributes responds to David Blake’s re-envisioning of university popular music curricula. In what follows, I engage with Blake’s suggestions for a post-hip hop pedagogical toolkit and propose ways to expand the discussion to encompass a larger holistic examination of popular music curricula. More specifically, I consider external factors that affect pedagogical choices and examine how specific course objectives and assessments might look in the context of Blake’s proposed materialist discourse.

Author Biography

Joanna Love, University of Richmond
Joanna Love is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Richmond. Her research examines intersections between popular music, MTV, advertising, and the music industry from the mid-1980s to the present. She is currently working various articles on these topics and on turning her dissertation into a book.
Published
2014-07-12
Issue
Vol 5 No 1: (Fall 2014)
Section
Roundtable

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