auteur Teaching the Music Press - Revised Edition: A Teacher's Guide & Classroom Resources (Aqa Gcse Media Studies)

Now including a dedicated chapter about the online music press, this revised edition of Teaching the Music Press provides a detailed profile of the contemporary music publication market in the Britain and highlights all the pertinent issues that arise. Written with Media Studies teachers of both GCSE and A level in mind, Teaching the Music Press presents an overview of context and key debates to assist in classroom delivery. Teaching the Music Press: provides a detailed selection of case studies, from Kerrang! to Top of the Pops magazine, which assess historical background, mode of address, content and approach to music; stresses the integration of historical perspectives into the teaching of contemporary examples for example, the range of incarnations of NME; covers all the Key Concepts of Media Studies within the context of the music press, from genre-specific publications and the lifestyle representations presented within, to a thorough analysis of the relationship between the music press and other media industries (institutions); now includes a new section devoted to the online music press, the growth and impact of web-based comment and journalism across a variety of genres; offers a wide-ranging selection of over 40 worksheets including stimulus material to enable the delivery of all the relevant areas in the classroom; includes a suggested scheme of work for planning lessons on the music press over a term.