Spinning Popular Culture as Public Pedagogy : Critical Reflections and Transformative Possibilities / / edited by Jon Austin.

• Superior document: Imagination and Praxis: Criticality and Creativity in Education and Educational Research
• HerausgeberIn: Austin, Jon.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed. 2017.
• Language: English
• Series: Imagination and Praxis: Criticality and Creativity in Education and Educational Research
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 138 p.)

"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 recognised 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. Hopefully, readers will be encouraged to look more consciously at the Everyday – the mundane and the taken-for-granted – in their own lives with a view to becoming more critically aware of the messages circulating, unnoticed, through popular culture. Spinning Popular Culture might also encourage the reader to pull out that box of old vinyl records sitting in the back of a storage cupboard somewhere and revisit and rethink their histories. Or maybe, to just find a turntable somewhere and play them one more time!".

Table of Contents

In Memoriam: Pepi Leistyna: 1963–2015 -- Introduction -- The Thrill Ain’t Gone: Eclectic Insights into the Evolution of Record Cover Art -- With a Little Help from Their (Mostly White) Friends: Searching for Invisible Members of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band -- Second Winter: A Whiter Shade of (the) Blues -- “Day Light Again”: “Déjà Vu”: The Personal Is Pedagogical, Political and Revolutionary -- The Dark Side of the Prism: Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon and the Pedagogy of Neoliberal Capitalism -- The Dark Side of the Moon: Refracting That Beam of Light -- The Diabolical Formula of the Mad Scientist: Urban Science Education through Hip-Hop Album Cover Art -- “Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue”: Capitalism, Punk Rock, and the Importance of Critical Pedagogy -- A Crass Course in Education: Punk Art, Music and Informal Learning -- There are Worse Things I Could Do…: With/In the Space of Différance -- “Shadowed” Lessons of Outkast’s Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik : A Critical Duoethnography.