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Review of Montgomery, Generation Digital
My review of Kathryn Montgomery’s Generation Digital: Politics, Commerce, and Childhood in the Age of the Internet is up at the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies, along with a response from...
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Earbuds Are Good for Sharing
I just sent off a chapter about sharing earbuds for a forthcoming volume from Oxford UP on Mobile Music Studies. My chapter is called “Earbuds Are Good for Sharing: Children’s Sociable Uses of...
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Review of Boynton and Kok, eds, Musical Childhoods
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: View...
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Review of Kathryn Marsh’s The Musical Playground
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...
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Panel for AAA 2009 on constructions of childhood in schooling
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...
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JFRR review
My review of Marsh’s Musical Playground posted below came out at JFR and is online here.
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Teachers College Educational Technology Conference
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,...
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Panel for SEM 2010 on music in “total” institution
“Music in ‘Total’ Institutions” Benjamin J. Harbert, “Blood in My Eyes: The Inspiring Principles of Musicians at Louisiana’s Hunt Prison” Anita Høyvik, “How to Prescribe a Healthy Listening? Music...
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Spring talks on Justin Bieber, Hannah Montana, and tween domesticity
I’m scheduled to present two papers this spring, at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference in Chicago and the Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association meeting in...
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My book, Schooling New Media: Music, Language, and Technology in Children’s Culture, was published by Oxford University Press in May. I started the research for this book in the fall of 2007, so this...
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