Recontextualized : a framework for teaching English with music / edited by Lindy L. Johnson (College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA), and Christian Z. Goering (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA).

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Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Remixing Teaching through Music: Intertextuality and Intersubjectivity in the Recontextualized ELA Classroom -- It's Like When the New Stuff We Read Mixes with the Old and Becomes One: Pop Music and Antigone -- Critical Analysis of Hip-Hop Music as Texts -- Mix It up: A Language Framework to Incorporate Popular Music and Critical Conversations in the ELA Classroom -- M.A.S.T.E.R.ing The Art of Music Integration -- Woody and Me: Connecting Millennials to the Great Depression -- Music Experiences as Writing Solutions: Grace for Drowning -- Hip-Hop and Social Change: Critical Pedagogy in the Classroom -- From Lenin to Lennon: Using Music to Revive the Classics -- A Punk Pedagogical Approach to Genre -- Language Power: Saying More with Less through Songwriting -- Afterword: Broadening the Context of Music in the Classroom -- Notes on Contributors.

Recontextualized: A Framework for Teaching English with Music is a book that can benefit any English teacher looking for creative approaches to teaching reading, writing, and critical thinking. Providing theoretically-sound, classroom-tested practices, this edited collection not only offers accessible methods for including music into your lesson plans, but also provides a framework for thinking about all classroom practice involving popular culture. The framework described in Recontextualized can be easily adapted to a variety of educational standards and consists of four separate approaches, each with a different emphasis or application. Written by experienced teachers from a variety of settings across the United States, this book illustrates the myriad ways popular music can be used, analyzed, and created by students in the English classroom.

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