Teaching Popular Music

Rock 'n' roll, pop and rock – the problems in teaching popular music – and how to solve them! Covering all forms of popular music and how you can use them in your classroom, this unique handbook explores philosophical issues, style classification, analytical methods and models, setting up the music classroom and includes reproducible activity sheets and music examples. A sample of the topics covered is below:

• Popular music & its place in the curriculum
• Popular music and multiculturalism
• Creativity and composition
• Setting up the classroom for popular music
• Drum kit rhythms
• Music in advertising
• Rock video
• Stylistic fusion

Suitable for Year 7-10

Peter Dunbar-Hall

ISBN 978 0 85583 1974