Nicole Biamonte is assistant professor of music theory at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University in Montreal. She has published articles in Music Theory Online and Music Theory Spectrum and contributed to the forthcoming collection Rush and Philosophy. She serves on the editorial board of Music Theory Online.
As the cover implies, the essays in this collection address pop
music from the 1930s to today, with a heavy emphasis on the roles
of technology and the media....While the collection is directed
more toward music theory than music history, it provides a wealth
of ideas for making history classes more interactive, relevant, and
engaging for today’s students....Those already committed to
integrating pop culture into the classroom will find plenty of
encouragement in this book.
*Journal of Music History Pedagogy*
A dizzying array of technology is now available to assist teachers
and students in accessing music. While recorded versions of many
genres of music have been readily available for generations, tools
such as YouTube.com, Pandora.com, and Grooveshark.com have made a
variety of recordings available for free. Additionally, a variety
of computer programs and games allow students to mix, analyze, and
play with music as never before. In editing Pop-Culture Pedagogy in
the Classroom, Biamonte (McGill Univ., Canada) has assembled a
timely collection of essays that assist classroom practitioners and
those interested in music education. The book deals with pertinent
issues such as building listening skills through sound-mixing
techniques, integrating aural skills and formal analysis through
popular music, and using American Idol to introduce music
criticism. The chapters mix explanations of some of the key
concepts related to various learning objectives for students with
practical ideas and techniques related to how to teach these in the
classroom using aspects of popular technology with which students
are familiar. A strong complement to Thomas Rudolph's Teaching
Music with Technology (2004). Summing Up: Recommended. General
readers; upper-division undergraduate students and above.
*CHOICE*
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