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Growing and Grooving to a Steady Beat: Pop Music in Fifth-Graders’ Social Lives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2019

Amanda Minks
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As everyday musical experience becomes increasingly mediated by radio, recordings, television, film, and computers, scholarly and popular discourses about music are periodically punctuated by concerns over consumer passivity and alienation. When we shift the focus to the musical practices of children and youth, these concerns are accompanied by age-old arguments over the intellectual, moral, and physical effects of music on developing young people. Charles Keil (1998:304) has recently suggested that humanity is in dire need of “restoration of grooving-capacity,” or else “boredom, anxiety, consumerism, and business as usual will kill us.” This is apparently a continuation of his earlier concern (1993:2) that mass mediation may be “enriching our private lives at the expense of a broader sociability.” Undoubtedly, thoughtful critiques of mass media constitute important work for musicologists; grass-roots projects for enlarging the musical materials to which children have access are equally valuable. Nevertheless, I think it's too early to condemn mass mediation as the pathway to human devolution.

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Yearbook for Traditional Music , Volume 31 , 1999 , pp. 77 - 101
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Copyright © 1999 by the International Council for Traditional Music

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