https://pubs.lib.umn.edu/index.php/tmq/issue/feed Teaching Media Quarterly 2022-10-14T14:21:30-05:00 Open Journal Systems <p><em>Teaching Media Quarterly</em> is an online, open-access journal dedicated to circulating practical and timely approaches to media concepts and topics. We welcome lessons from a variety of disciplinary and methodological perspectives, and we are committed to publishing activities that help students bring critical questions to bear on the world around them. Our goal is to promote collaborative exchange of undergraduate teaching resources between media educators at higher education institutions.</p> https://pubs.lib.umn.edu/index.php/tmq/article/view/5112 Teaching (with) Popular Music: Editor’s Introduction 2022-10-14T14:21:30-05:00 Runchao Liu runchaoliu77@gmail.com <p>Introduction to the special issue "Teaching (with) Popular Music"</p> 2022-10-14T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2022 Runchao Liu https://pubs.lib.umn.edu/index.php/tmq/article/view/4268 Examining Afro-Japanese Encounters Through Popular Music 2021-07-13T00:38:22-05:00 Warren Stanislaus warren.stanislaus@gmail.com <p>The following lesson plan introduces a class-wide collaborative creative project that requires students to select songs to be compiled into a class Spotify playlist. Originally delivered in an online format at Rikkyo University’s Global Liberal Arts Program in Tokyo to a class of Japanese students in the fall of 2020 as part of the course “Afro-Japanese Visions: Past, Present and Futures,” this specific assignment asked students to imagine that they were leading a cultural exchange event to introduce Black British artists and culture to the Japanese public as part of the UK’s Black History Month celebrations through their curated Spotify playlist. In particular, this assignment aims to use popular music to encourage students to consider how contemporary Japanese society represents “blackness” as well as connecting this to wider historical Japanese interactions and intimacies with African diaspora populations.</p> 2022-10-14T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2022 Warren Stanislaus https://pubs.lib.umn.edu/index.php/tmq/article/view/4334 Learning about Music Fanzine Cultures 2021-08-20T07:36:57-05:00 Eleftherios Zenerian e.zenerian2@brighton.ac.uk <p>In this article, I present a lesson plan taken from one of the sessions of an undergraduate module titled <em>Music, Technology and Everyday Life</em>. The lesson plan is on Music Fanzines. Students are introduced to key scholarly themes around zine-making during a one-hour lecture, and during the seminar they work towards the production of their own music fanzine. Through this process, students are encouraged to reflect on the practice of zine-making from the perspective of the participant, in close dialogue with scholarly literature, and learn about music culture by becoming part of music culture.&nbsp;</p> 2022-10-14T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2022 Eleftherios Zenerian