I’ve got a piece up (with some photos) about kids’ MP3 players as material culture over at NYU’s Material World Blog, which is a nice place. Thanks to Heather Horst for inviting me to contribute.
Live at Material World
July 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment
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Panel for SEM 2010 on music in “total” institution
June 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment
“Music in ‘Total’ Institutions”
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Benjamin J. Harbert, “Blood in My Eyes: The Inspiring Principles of Musicians at Louisiana’s Hunt Prison”
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Anita Høyvik, “How to Prescribe a Healthy Listening? Music Listening in Terms of Medical Efficacy at Rivington House”
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Jennifer A. Woodruff, “‘Girl, you nasty!’: Policing the Boundaries between Inappropriate Dancing and Moral Character”
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Tyler Bickford, “Musical Consumerism in School: Expressive Negotiations of Institutional Authority During Classroom Lessons at a Vermont Elementary School”
Abstracts below the jump.
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Teachers College Educational Technology Conference
April 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Will present a paper called “Mobile Music in School: Interactivity and Intimacy in Children’s Uses of MP3 Players at a Vermont Elementary School” at a conference at Teachers College in May: TCETC 2010, “Media and Designs for Learning.” Looking forward to the opportunity to exchange ideas with the folks across 120th street.
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Lise Waxer and Hewitt Pantaleoni prizes
February 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment
A couple of papers I presented in 2008 received prizes this fall:
The 2009 Lise Waxer Prize from the Popular Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology, recognizing the most distinguished student paper in the ethnomusicology of popular music presented at the SEM annual meeting in Wesleyan, CT, October 2008, for my paper, “Media Consumption as Social Organization at a New England Primary School” (pdf or scribd).
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The 2009 Hewitt Pantaleoni Prize from the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (MACSEM) for the best student paper presented at the Middle Atlantic SEM Chapter meeting in New York, March 2008, for my paper, “The Social Economy of Headphone Use in a New England Primary School.” That paper turned into my “Earbuds Are Good for Sharing” for the Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music (pdf or scribd).
Needless to say I’m pleased and grateful.
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JFRR review
August 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment
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Panel for AAA 2009 on constructions of childhood in schooling
August 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment
More happy news: the panel Micah Gilmer and I organized for this fall’s meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Philadelphia has been accepted. Here’s the program; abstracts for the panel and my paper after the jump:
“Schooling Which Child? Contested Constructions of Childhood and Youth in Educational Settings” (sponsored by the Anthropology of Children and Childhood Interest Group)
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Bambi Chapin (University Maryland, Baltimore County),
“Developing Understanding in Children, Understandings of Child Development: Sri Lankan Models of Child Development and the New Educational Reforms” -
Jennifer Adair (University of Texas, Austin), “Immigrant and Nonimmigrant Teachers’ Conceptualizations of Diversity and Childhood in Five U.S. Cities: The Chancla Debate”
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Micah Gilmer (Duke University), ” ‘These Kids Got to Step Up and Be Men’: Language and Football as a Liminal Space at Eastside High”
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Alicia Blum-Ross (University of Oxford), “Creative Geniuses or Feral Thugs? Participatory Filmmaking and the Construction of ‘Youth’ “
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Tyler Bickford (Columbia University), “Competing Public Childhoods: Entertainment Media, Consumerism, and Children’s Expressive Practices at a Vermont Primary School”
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Chaired by John Herzog (Northeastern University)
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Panel on portable music and technology
June 18, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Happy news — a panel on mobile music and technology that I organized with Heather Horst, Ben Tausig, and Bill Bahng Boyer has been accepted for SEM 2009 in Mexico City. Here’s an outline (abstracts for the panel and my paper after the jump):
“Contested Musical Mobilities: Ethnomusicologies of Portable Listening and Technology”
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Tyler Bickford, “Tinkering and Tethering: Children’s MP3 Players as Material Culture”
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Bill Bahng Boyer, “Blasting the Ghetto: Boomboxes and the Spilling Over of Portable Audio”
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Heather A. Horst, “Noise, Sound, and Other Callings: Mobile Communication in Everyday Life”
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Benjamin Tausig, “The Co-Motion of Bangkok”
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Review of Kathryn Marsh’s The Musical Playground
June 12, 2009 · 2 Comments
I reviewed Kathryn Marsh’s The Musical Playground: Global Tradition and Change in Children’s Songs and Games for the Journal of Folklore Research. It’s quite a book, really underscoring how these enduring oral traditions connect to growing networks of media, migration, and education.
Marsh’s book — based on a massive international research study of children’s clapping games in seven countries — is nicely complemented by a new study going on in the U.K. about the relationships between kids’ singing game traditions and new media — games, phones, the Internet, etc. The project, led by Jackie Marsh at the University of Sheffield, among others, involves new ethnographic studies of kids’ playground games, an archival project digitizing the Opie’s collections, and an effort to program the Nintendo Wii to play some of these games. See the write-up in the Telegraph. It’s really nice to see this emerging synergy between research into kids’ expressive culture and their technology/media practices, and the U.K. project will be an amazing resource when it’s completed.
My review after the jump. I’ll link to it when it goes up at JFR.
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Review of Boynton and Kok, eds, Musical Childhoods
May 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment
I reviewed Susan Boynton’s and Roe-Min Kok’s edited volume, Musical Childhoods and the Cultures of Youth, for Current Musicology last fall. Really a nice book. The review is here and on scribd:
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Earbuds Are Good for Sharing
May 1, 2009 · 1 Comment
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