Editors:
- This volume contains specific instances of the ways in which nostalgia, memory and critical analysis can be worked together to expose the hegemonizing effects of popular culture, as well as demonstrating the resistive potential in interrogating such cultural items
- Exemplars of critical analyses of everyday items for possible use in classroom teaching (at school and, particularly, university level) are not common in the teacher education and arts-related textbook areas
- The volume reflects perspectives from a diverse range of academic/educational disciplinary areas, with the contributors working across areas of cultural studies, teacher education, curriculum theory, science, formal, informal, practitioner-oriented, and theoretician-oriented spaces
- Public pedagogy is considered from a much earlier use of the term, and not necessarily only from the post-1975 cultural studies turn in the area
Part of the book series: Imagination and Praxis: Criticality and Creativity in Education and Educational Research (IPCC)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Following a brief history of the development of the aesthetics of the packaging of recorded music, eleven internationally recognised critical scholars each interrogate the cover of a particular vinyl record album they grew up with or with which they have some personal experience or resonance. The totality of the cultural artefact that is the vinyl record album is, essentially, dissected and considered from perspectives of paratextuality and pedagogy.
In this book, the contributors make the connections of everyday life to memory and history by locating the album in their personal biographies. They then look to the artwork on the album cover to explore the pedagogical possibilities they see resident there. The individual chapters, each in very different ways, provide examples of the exposure of such broad public pedagogies in practice, through critiquing the artwork from both reproductive and resistance positions.
Hopefully, readers will be encouraged to look more consciously at the Everyday – the mundane and the taken-for-granted – in their own lives with a view to becoming more critically aware of the messages circulating, unnoticed, through popular culture. Spinning Popular Culture might also encourage the reader to pull out that box of old vinyl records sitting in the back of a storage cupboard somewhere and revisit and rethink their histories. Or maybe, to just find a turntable somewhereand play them one more time!"
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Jon Austin
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Spinning Popular Culture as Public Pedagogy
Book Subtitle: Critical Reflections and Transformative Possibilities
Editors: Jon Austin
Series Title: Imagination and Praxis: Criticality and Creativity in Education and Educational Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-848-8
Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-848-8Published: 28 January 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 138
Topics: Education, general