Popular Music and Parenting explores the culture of popular music as a
shared experience between parents, carers and young children. Offering a
critical overview of this topic from a popular music studies
perspective, this book expands our assumptions about how young audiences
and caregivers engage with music together. Using both case studies and
wider analysis, the authors examine music listening and participation
between children and parents in both domestic and public settings,
ranging across children's music media, digital streaming, live concerts,
formal and informal popular music education, music merchandising and
song lyrics.
Placing young children's musical engagement in the context of the music
industry, changing media technologies, and popular culture, Popular
Music and Parenting paints a richly interdisciplinary picture of the
intersection of popular music with the parent-child relationship.