Book

Spinning popular culture as public pedagogy : critical reflections and transformative possibilities

Austin, Jon, editor

Overview

'Spinning Popular Culture' is a book about the effervescent activity lying (perhaps dormant) beneath the surface of seemingly inert and mundane cultural items in everyday life. It is a book about the power of the Everyday to maintain loyalty to or, at the very least, an unthinking acceptance of particular ways of being in the world. It is also about the capacity of such seemingly mundane artefacts to provoke resistance to this, and to enliven the visioning of social alternatives. It is a book about individual critical analyses of album cover art. Following a brief history of the development of the aesthetics of the packaging of recorded music, eleven internationally recognized 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.

• Publisher: Sense Publishers
• Subject: Sound recordings Album covers History. / Popular music Social aspects. / Popular culture. / Sound recordings Album covers.
• ISBN: 9463008462, 9789463008464, 9463008470, 9789463008471

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
NC1882.7.R62 S67 2017	1	BOOK	ARTS