Popular Music and Parenting

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.

Shelley Brunt is Senior Lecturer in the Music Industry Program at RMIT University, Australia. Liz Giuffre is Senior Lecturer in the Music and Sound Design Program at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

Starting the Conversation about Popular Music and Parenting / 1 There Is No Such Thing as Children's Music: Forming Relationships between Parents, Carers and Children / 2 Children, Parenting and Music Media / 3 Popular Music and Parenting Engagement through Digital Distribution: Bluey Case Study / 4 Songs about Parent/Carer and Child Relationships / 5 Towards a Parent-Friendly Music Industry: Insights from Workers during the COVID Pandemic / 6 Can I Bring My Kid to the Gig? / 7 Baby Shark in the Global Children's Mediascape / Future Directions for Popular Music and Parenting