Pop-Culture Pedagody in the Music Classroom

Teachers the world over are discovering the importance and benefits of incorporating popular culture into the music classroom. Students' familiarity with recorded music, videos, games, and other increasingly accessible multimedia material can enliven course content and foster interactive learning and participation. Ideas and techniques are presented for teaching music classes using elements of popular culture that resonate with students' everyday lives. From popular songs and genres to covers, mixes, mashups, and video games such as Dance Dance Revolution and Guitar Hero, to television shows like American Idol, this exciting collection offers pedagogical models for incorporating pop culture and its associated technologies into a wide variety of music courses.