Contemporary popular music is a ubiquitous social, cultural, and pedagogical force. Enabled by ever-evolving and -expanding technology, its songs and lyrics are transmitted into our most public and private spaces. For this study, I present the Billboard music charts as a functioning pedagogy and curriculum. Riffing on Richter’s denkbilder, Aoki’s curricular worlds of plan and lived experience, Giroux’s public pedagogy, and Giroux & Simon’s theorizing on youth culture, I sound out messages and motives embedded within the hit parade pedagogy. DJing a methodology of qualitative inquiry, autoethnography, and free association, I listen closely to chart-topping songs by Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, and P!nk that feature themes of marginalization, and consider the paradox presented by the juxtaposition of their popularity and subject matter. I suggest that this playlist legitimizes and perpetuates its listeners’ marginalization, running counter to its supposed intent to galvanize and inspire. Before signing off, I consider the implications for school-based educators and pedagogy in regard to engaging marginalization, particularly the notion of implementing a curriculum with which students may participate and sing along.

A piece of popular music is usually defined as a combination of vocal melody and instrumental accompaniment. People often start with the melody part when they are trying to compose or reproduce a piece of popular music. However, creating appropriate instrumental accompaniment part for a melody line can be a difficult task for non-musicians. Automation of accompaniment generation for vocal melodies thus can be very useful for those who are interested in singing for fun. Therefore, a computer software system which is capable of generating harmonic accompaniment for a given vocal melody input has been presented in this thesis. This automatic accompaniment system uses a Hidden Markov Model to assign chord to a given part of melody based on the knowledge learnt from a bank of vocal tracks of popular music. Comparing with other similar systems, our system features a high resolution key estimation algorithm which is helpful to adjust the generated accompaniment to the input vocal. Moreover, we designed a structure analysis subsystem to extract the repetition and structure boundaries from the melody. These boundaries are passed to the chord assignment and style player subsystems in order to generate more dynamic and organized accompaniment. Finally, prototype applications are discussed and the entire system is evaluated.

Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division of Humanities, Department of Contemporary Music Studies, 2006. / Bibliography: p. 377-385. / Introduction -- Literature review, discussion of methodologies and research orientation -- "20% of nothing": Australian rock music management -- Australian country music management -- Australian pop music management: the third party -- Conclusion: managerial creativity. / Artist managers 'create' careers for musicians, yet little has been written about their creativity in the academic domain. Thus this thesis develops the notion of managerial creativity. Artist managers build and maintain 'brands', and this is a creative industry function. The thesis begins with a description of what artist management is, then it reviews the way in which various Australian musicians' and artist managers' careers are created and maintained. A musical idea or product arises from the synergy of many sources and not only from the mind of a single person (Csikszentmihalyi, 1996). Therefore it is easier to enhance creativity by changing conditions in the environment the artist is located in than by trying to make artists think more creatively. Managerial creativity involves the creation and maintenance of the system, context or environment from which artistic creativity emerges and is therefore the facet of the music industry that can most effectively enhance musical creativity. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / ix, 390 p., ill

Based on the author's Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references, discography, videography (p. 146-159) and index.

Thesis (M.A.)--Cincinnati Christian University, 2009. / Includes abstract and vita. Bibliography: l. 134-140.

Based on the author's Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references, discography, videography (p. 146-159) and index.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2004. Graduate Programme in History. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 312-337). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pNQ99170

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Investigar o surgimento da ideia de música jovem no Brasil é o objetivo deste trabalho. Para tanto, privilegiamos os anos 60, momento em que a categoria de jovem, tornava-se hiper-representada na música, na televisão e na imprensa escrita, processo que culmina com a estreia do programa de TV Jovem Guarda, em agosto de 1965. Comandado por Roberto Carlos, Erasmo Carlos e Wanderléa, tratava-se de um apanhado de performances musicais que tinham a juventude como nicho de mercado privilegiado, cruzando influencias que iam dos Beatles à música italiana. Em pouco tempo, seus artistas se tornaram ídolos nacionais. Reconhecíveis em programas de TV, filmes, ensaios fotográficos, reportagens, sessões de entrevistas e até artigos de consumo como calças, botas, bonecos e lancheiras, em pouco tempo seus artistas tornaram-se não só ídolos nacionais, mas modelos de reconhecimento, identificação e conduta. Tratava-se do esforço inédito de construir uma cultura juvenil ao redor do consumo de música. O protagonismo da mídia é evidente em todo o processo, não somente por articular um mercado de bens culturais, mas sobretudo por fixar os quadros de referência que permitem enxergar, enquadrar e interpretar o jovem. Isso explica o foco desta tese na ação da indústria cultural. Ao lidar com uma grande diversidade de fontes - letras de canções, capas de disco, material de imprensa, artigos de consumo, pesquisas de mercado, entrevistas, registros audiovisuais -, em sua maioria primárias, estuda-se os diversos e conflitantes significados que forjaram a ideia de uma cultura juvenil no Brasil, desde sua enunciação em meados da década de 50, até seu amadurecimento na década seguinte. Sendo a música jovem o nosso campo de investigação privilegiado, o objetivo central é analisar a representação social da juventude construída pela Jovem Guarda e articulada no interior dos veículos de comunicação de massa. Para alcançá-lo, interessa-nos investigar: que representação é essa; como ela é assumida por agentes e instituições; através de que linguagem se afirma; a qual universo simbólico se refere e como é confrontada por narrativas concorrentes. Trabalhando na interseção entre a sociologia da música e a sociologia da juventude, exploramos em que medida a juventude se torna uma categoria central para pensar a música e a música, uma categoria central para pensar a juventude. / The aim of this work is to investigate the emergence, in Brazil, of the ideia of a music for young people. This brings us to the 60´s, a moment when the category of youth began to dominate album covers, song lyrics, press statements, and a good number of advertising materials. One of this process\'s landmarks was the Jovem Guarda (Young Guard) television show launched in September 1965 and led by Roberto Carlos, Wanderléa and Erasmo Carlos. Consisting of a number of musical performances, it targeted youth and gathered influences ranging from the Beatles to Italian pop music. Soon, its artists become national idols; their image multiplied in TV shows, films, photo essays, reports, interviews and even consumer goods like pants, boots, dolls, lunch boxes etc. It is through these platforms that singers were constructed as models of youth identity, putting forward an unprecedented effort to build a youth culture around music consumption. In this equation, the media played a decisive role by offering not only items for young consumers, but primarily ways of viewing, framing and interpreting youth. That explains the focus of this thesis on the cultural industry. By dealing with a wide range of materials - song lyrics , album covers, newspapers, consumer goods , market research statistics, interviews , audio-visual records -, most of them primary sources, we study the various and conflicting meanings that forged the idea of a youth culture in Brazil since its enunciation in the mid- 50 until its maturity in the next decade. As the music is our privileged field of research, the main objective is to analyze the social representation of youth built by the Jovem Guarda and articulated within the mass media. To reach our aims, we are interested in investigating: the nature of this representation, how artists and institutions adopted it, the language used to affirm it, the symbolic universe it refers to and how it is confronted by competing narratives. Working on the intersection between the sociology of music and the sociology of youth, we explore in which way the youth became a central category to think about music, and music, a central category to think about youth.

[pt] O objetivo desse trabalho é debater de forma crítica o corpo no campo da canção popular no Brasil. Como a partir do corpo, e da em-cena-ação deste, em diversas áreas que envolvem a produção e recepção da canção, se abrem novas possibilidades para pensar questões que atravessam a música popular e que reverberam na vida cultural brasileira. Minha proposta é refletir sobre a inscrição desse corpo na cena cultural na qual está implicada sua presença e sobre sua intervenção decisiva nesse campo de produção. Sua capacidade ímpar, se o comparamos aos corpos de artistas de outras grandes áreas da produção cultural como cinema, literatura ou teatro, de permanecer como índice estético, social e político de nossa sociedade. Esse lugar muito especial que o cancionista ocupa no Brasil e que só encontra similitudes em outros poucos países nos quais a música popular se desenvolveu com a mesma força. O corpo funcionará aqui como um liquidificador que processa todos esses índices e os (d)enuncia como dados concretos de uma experiência. / [en] The aim of this work is to critically debate on the body within the field of popular song in Brazil. The way how, from the body and its in-scene-n-a(c)tion, new possibilities in several areas involving the production and reception of the song are opened to think about issues transcending popular music and consequently reverberating through Brazilian cultural life. My proposition is to reflect on the inscription of this body on the cultural scene in which its presence is implied, and on its decisive intervention in this field of production. Its unique capacity - if compared to the bodies of artists from other great areas of cultural production such as film, literature or theatre - of lasting as an aesthetic, social and political index of our society. This very special place that the songwriter occupies in Brazil, and which solely finds similarities in a few other countries where popular music has developed with the same strength. The body will work here as a blender processing all these indexes, an(de)nouncing them as concrete data from an experience.