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Changing Play: Play, media and commercial culture from the 1950s to the present day (Paperback, Ed)
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Changing Play: Play, media and commercial culture from the 1950s to the present day (Paperback, Ed)
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This book explores changes in the nature of the relationship
between play, media and commercial culture through a comparison of
play in the 1950s/60s and the present day, examining the
continuities and discontinuities in play over time. There are many
aspects of play which remain the same today as they were sixty
years ago, which relate to the purposes of play, the way in which
children weave in material from a range of sources in their play,
including media, and how they play with each other. Differences in
play between now and the mid-twentieth century are due to the very
different social and cultural worlds children now inhabit, in which
technology is central to many play activities. Challenging deficit
notions of play in contemporary society and providing evidence to
contest the recurrent myth of the disappearance of play, the book:
Provides an historical account of changes in the relationship
between play, media and commercial culture over the past sixty
yearsOffers fascinating, illuminating and direct accounts of
children playing in the 1950s / 60s and today Engages with the work
of the renowned folklorists Iona and Peter Opie and reviews their
legacyAddresses key issues such as outdoor play, technology and
play, and gender and play "Changing Play recovers the
groundbreaking work of Iona and Peter Opie, making it relevant and
consequential for the contemporary study of children, play and
media cultures. Marsh and Bishop convincingly demonstrate how
children's play practices, when approached on their own terms,
exhibit a persistent dynamism that cannot and should not be reduced
to simple exclamations of panic or celebration." Daniel Thomas
Cook, Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University USA"Using
the work of Iona and Peter Opie as a benchmark, Changing Play
tracks the continuities in children's play and the changes that
have taken place over the past half-century. The research
juxtaposes the memories of children who grew up in the 1950s and
1960s with observations of and conversations with today's children
in Sheffield and London; in doing so it allays much of the current
anxiety about consumption and the media. Timely and topical,
Changing Play will find its place alongside the Opies' classic
volumes." Hugh Cunningham, University of Kent, UKAuthor of The
Invention of Childhood"This important new text challenges the
prevailing view that children's play has been contaminated by
access to digital technologies. In exploring accounts of children's
play from the 1950s and 60s to the present day against the backdrop
of rapid changes within media and commercial markets, the authors
skillfully reveal the particular ways in which children's play has
changed and stayed the same. In so doing, they invite the reader to
reject romantic notions of 'lost childhoods' and embrace the
realities and richness of children's play in the 21st century. I
highly recommend this book." Professor Trisha Maynard, Director,
Research Centre for Children, Families and Communities, Canterbury
Christ Church University, UK
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