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Journal of Popular Music Education - Volume 6, Issue 1, 2022
Volume 6, Issue 1, 2022
- Editorial
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Popular music in family contexts: Broadening the definition through a review of literature
Authors: Meryl Sole and Claudia CalìIn this article, we review literature documenting the presence and use of popular music within family contexts. After providing a definition of family from a psychological perspective, we present studies that explore popular music in traditionally structured families across the lifespan. We continue by exploring bands with members who share blood ties and progress to analyse contexts in which popular music provides space for sharing meaningful interactions and for developing feelings of family identity, such as nursing homes, homeless shelters and prisons. Considerations for the use of popular music in everyday life and implications for music education are provided.
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Where do our music preferences come from? Family influences on music across childhood, adolescence and early adulthood
Authors: Alexandra Lamont and Jessica CrichWhile much is known about the influence of peers and parents in developing musical memories and preferences, the wider family context has not yet been considered. We present novel empirical evidence from surveys (N = 100) with young adults and interviews (N = 15) and surveys (N = 24) with young adults and their influencers, which sheds light on how family dynamics influence the development of music listening, habits and preferences. Close family relationships were associated with more shared musical experiences, positive musical memories and greater tolerance for different musical styles, with little evidence for conflict between parents and adolescents. Many memorable experiences in early adolescence were shared with parents, and parents’ own preferences were passed on. Other family members also played important roles, sometimes substituting for parents, and friends were also influential as surrogate siblings. Family in a broader sense thus influences enculturation and provides a supportive shared context for musical development.
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Keep singing out: Families’ use of popular music as a resource for raising resilient children
More LessThe purpose of this study was to examine musical parenting for resilience in young children and how popular music, especially, was an essential resource for the families raising them. To address this question, I implemented a longitudinal interview study with five families with children attending kindergarten in the United States. Qualitative data analysis showed that parents used popular music intuitively and deliberately to teach their children resilience skills. Specifically, it played a central role in the children’s emotional and social development, strengthening family relationships and creating family coherence, all implicated in developing healthy resilience.
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Andrá tutto bene! Musicking together and apart: The role of popular music and singing during the COVID-19 period in Italy
Authors: Antonella Coppi and Johann van der SandtThe role and power of music in community life are indisputable. Music not only inspires people to continue struggling and fight for their rights but also plays a comforting role in times of grief, loss or in the face of hardship like the COVID-19 crisis has brought upon the world. Music is fundamental to our social roots, and the fundamental link that music provides for us is about emotion and communicative expression. Popular songs shared from windows and balconies became a means for emotional expression and communication in all regions of the Italian peninsula during the COVID-19 lockdown (March–May 2020). This article offers a report of qualitative research using a phenomenological approach on what role popular music played during that period.
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Perceptions of the effects of sharing popular music on well-being and family relationships during COVID-19: A preliminary study of a group of Chinese families
More LessDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, the frustration and frightening circumstances of people living in a limited space for months amplified even the smallest daily problems among family members. Families’ well-being became an immediate and important issue. I studied 189 Chinese families and examined their attitudes towards popular music and awareness in using it to improve their family relationships and well-being. The research questions were: How much time did the participants spend on music activities during the lockdown period compared to other leisure activities? What popular music activities were used, and how were they used? What were the Chinese families’ attitudes and perceptions towards sharing and performing popular music to support their relationships and well-being? Most participants believed that music had positive effects on their mood and well-being. Making and sharing popular music with family members improved family relationships.
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- Practices and Perspectives
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Song lines and soundtracks: Autoethnographic narratives across four generations
More LessMusic is personal. While self-reflection is common to performers, composers, teachers and researchers, there exists a musical dimension – the source of these experiences – wanting recognition. These experiences, I suggest, are the personal memories of one’s deep involvement with music. Reported here are rich narratives across four generations of women in my family. Each one demonstrates separate cultural identities and influences according to her musical heritage, religious traditions, upbringing and access to music at a given time, place and environment. Each one’s story reveals a profound sense of self-knowing, the ‘me-ness’ of lived experience through music. The autoethnographic data were inspired by close relationships with the women in my family and interest in the significance of music memories from childhood, youth and early adulthood. I propose that knowledge of our students’ musical memories provides a baseline for understanding their musical development and influences our curricular decisions.
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Teaching the sociology of popular music: It’s all about family!
More LessI teach the sociology of popular music online to undergraduate students. My course is intended for upper division students, some of whom are sociology majors, but the majority of whom take the course as an elective, largely out of personal interest in the topic. I use my textbook, Understanding Society through Popular Music (3rd edition) as our primary text. We cover a range of timely topics, but a – if not the – link among them is the family as a context for all facets of the popular music experience, either directly or indirectly. Overall, I use a life course model to organize a discussion of the important role music plays in all segments, stages episodes, etc. of life. I prefer to use the concept of space by which the total experience of music varies through life, but is only determined to some degree by age, the classic life course variable. To point, family is a feature of all music spaces, again directly or indirectly. Family can be found in all segments or spaces of life. Being refers to the space, generally occupied by children, in which people accept the music provided to them by adults and use it as building blocks for an emerging sense of self. Becoming refers to the way later adolescents and adults actively manage their music through categorization and evaluation. Been there refers to the ways the elderly accept music without much need for self actualization from it. I have organized this article chronologically, in terms of the evolving role the concept of ‘family’ holds in the life history of my work conducting research on and teaching about music. My forthcoming book, Music across the Course of Life (Routledge, 2022) applies experiences from my 50 years of teaching and research on popular music to flesh out this model.
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Welcome to the journal
Authors: Gareth Dylan Smith and Bryan Powell
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