The course Youth Music Scenes will focus on the informal processes
through which young people negotiate “childhood,” “tweens,”
“teenager,” and “youth” and as a means of understanding how they use
music in their everyday lives to construct a status quo as well as
resist the dominant adult culture. The course explores the musical
cultures of youth as a continuum of social processes, created within
the context of real, imagined, and historical communities. The
course is not about music appreciation; rather we will investigate
the ways youth create music and subcultures of musicking.