Popular Music and Parenting explores the culture of popular music as a shared experience between parents, carers and young children. Offering a critical overview of this topic from a popular music studies perspective, this book expands our assumptions about how young audiences and caregivers engage with music together. Using both case studies and wider analysis, the authors examine music listening and participation between children and parents in both domestic and public settings, ranging across children's music media, digital streaming, live concerts, formal and informal popular music education, music merchandising and song lyrics.
Placing young children’s musical engagement in the context of the music industry, changing media technologies, and popular culture, Popular Music and Parenting paints a richly interdisciplinary picture of the intersection of popular music with the parent–child relationship.
Author(s): Shelley Brunt, Liz Giuffre
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 168
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Starting the Conversation About Popular Music and Parenting
Why ‘Popular Music’ and ‘Parenting’?
How We Have Approached the Book and Why
Book Structure
Why Popular Music Studies Needs to Talk About Parenting
Why We Need to Have These Conversations Now
Bibliography
1 There Is No Such Thing as Children’s Music: Forming Relationships Between Parents, Carers and Children
Popular Music and the Boundaries of ‘Youth’
How Low Can ‘Youth’ Go?
The Genre of Children’s Music: Ways to Describe (And Divide) Audiences
There Is No Such Thing as Music (Only) for Children. Instead, There Is Just Music and Relationships
Conclusion—There Is No Such Thing as (Just) Children’s Music
Notes
Bibliography
2 Children, Parenting and Music Media
Musical Instruments Made to Appeal to Children
Music Boxes and Beyond: From Wind-Ups to Wireless Speakers (With Predetermined Songs)
Children’s Musical Franchises: Groups of Recordings Aimed at Children
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
3 Popular Music and Parenting Engagement Through Digital Distribution Bluey Case Study
Creating Original and Adapted Music With Bluey’s Joff Bush
‘Classical’ Music Becomes Popular Music Via Bluey
Intergenerational Audiences (And Consumers) of Original Bluey Music
There Is No Such Thing as Children’s Music—Only Relationships With Bluey Fans
Is There Something Distinct About Music Made for a Variety of Audiences and Distributed Digitally During a Lockdown?
Conclusion
Bibliography
4 Songs About Parent/Carer and Child Relationships
Songs About Parent/Carer and Child Relationships
Parent/Carer as Protagonist, Child as Muse
Child as Protagonist, Parent as Muse (The Giver of Advice)
The Child and Parent/Carer Write Together Or in Response (AKA—“The Wainwrights”)
Conclusion: Lyrical Relationships Between Intergenerational Groups
Notes
Bibliography
5 Towards A Parent-Friendly Music Industry: Insights From Workers During the COVID Pandemic
Music Mothers and Others: Podcasting as a Research Method
Voices From the Music Industry
Make Parenting Visible
Childcare Is Vital
Effects of the Pandemic
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
6 Can I Bring My Kid to the Gig?
Prelude
Introduction
‘Family-Friendly’ Gigs in Australia
Literature About Family-Friendly Gigs
Defining the ‘Family-Friendly Gig’
Audience Perspectives On the Family-Friendly Gig
Reflections Towards a Definition
Postlude
Notes
Bibliography
7 Baby Shark in the Global Children’s Mediascape
Baby Shark Audiences
Origins and Authorship
Baby Shark as Global Media Text
User-Generated Baby Shark Texts
Baby Shark: Beyond the Screen
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Future Directions for Popular Music and Parenting
Prelude
Key Objectives and Conclusions
What We Have Learned
Furthering the Conversation
Postlude: Parenting, Popular Music and a Pandemic
Bibliography
Index
