Keywords
literary analysis, critical analysis, writing analysis, persuasive writing techniques, musical influence
Submission Type
Research
Preview
Teaching critical analysis is a unit that I designed to get students to understand the elements in an increasingly complex world where language provides the vehicle to refine thought. Because students are imbued in the element, they are often persuaded, cajoled, and tricked into embracing messages and images that may negatively influence their lives. Teaching them to look at the music and the videos that influence them and critically analyze the persuasive techniques and the impact of these messages on their developing values empowers them to choose more carefully the music they embrace or at least understand the influence of music on their lives. The essential question becomes, What are the influences of music and music videos on youth, and how can a critical look at messages and meaning enrich and connect literatures of the past and the present to understand the past literatures in a new way? This is a unit that uses the awareness of the language of music to help students navigate the world around them.
Recommended Citation
Miller, Marilyn
(2012)
"Critical Pop Culture Consumers: Using TuPac and Music in the Classroom to Teach Critical Literary Analysis of Pop Culture,"
The Utah English Journal: Vol. 40, Article 9.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/uej/vol40/iss1/9