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Schooling New Media - Music, Language, and Technology in Children's Culture (Hardcover)
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Schooling New Media - Music, Language, and Technology in Children's Culture (Hardcover)
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Popular music and digital media are constantly entwined in
elementary and middle-school children's talk, interactions, and
relationships, and offer powerful cultural resources to children in
their everyday struggles over institutionalized language, literacy,
and expression in school. In Schooling New Media, author Tyler
Bickford considers how digital music technologies are incorporated
into children's expressive culture, their friendships, and their
negotiations with adults about the place of language, music, and
media in school. Schooling New Media is a groundbreaking study of
children's music and media consumption practices, examining how
transformations in music technologies influence the way children,
their peers, and adults relate to one another. Based on long-term
ethnographic research with a community of schoolchildren in
Vermont, Bickford focuses on portable digital music devices - i.e.
MP3 players - to reveal their key role in mediating intimate,
face-to-face relationships and structuring children's interactions
both with music and with each other. Schooling New Media provides
an important ethnographic and theoretical intervention into
ethnomusicology, childhood studies, and music education,
emphasizing the importance-and yet under-appreciation-of
interpersonal interactions and institutions like schools as sites
of musical activity. Bickford explores how headphones facilitate
these school-centered interactions, as groups of children share
their earbuds with friends and listen to music together while
participating in the dense overlap of talk, touch, and gesture of
their peer groups. He argues that children treat MP3 players more
like toys than technology, and that these devices expand the
repertoires of childhood communicative practices such as passing
notes and whispering-all means of interacting with friends beyond
the reach of adults. These connections afforded by digital music
listening enable children to directly challenge the language and
literacy goals of classroom teachers. Bickford's Schooling New
Media is unique in its intensive ethnographic attention to everyday
sites of musical consumption and performance, and offers a
sophisticated conceptual approach for understanding the problems
and possibilities of children's uses of new media in schools.
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