Art Attacks: Punk Methods and Design Education

Bestley, Russ

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“…Accepting that punk is difficult and contentious to define, indeed as Dunn (2016: 9) suggests, it is perhaps better thought of as an ‘open symbol’, punk can be understood as social practices that imagine ‘new ways of being’ (p. 11). Bestley (2018: 17) shares a similar view, describing punk as oppositional to the ‘parent cultures’ it emerges within, and ‘what it opposes varies across the wider culture and context within which it operates’. Hence, punk offers material, conceptual, political, and social resources that ‘both challenges and provides alternatives [for] the politics of everyday life’ (Dunn, 2016: 19).…”

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“…More to the point, punk may be more helpfully thought of in terms of subcultures, ‘smaller, more localised and differentiated structures, within one or other of the larger cultural networks’ (Clarke et al, 2006: 6). Sharing this understanding, Bestley (2018: 26) describes punk as ‘a complex, and contested, set of competing communities, rather than a monolithic bloc operating purely in contrast to mainstream hegemony’. The key point being that subcultures maintain relationships with, while being distinct from, dominant cultural milieus.…”

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“…However, this should not be taken to simply mean they are incapable of learning about punk and coming to understand how and why punk can be drawn on in ways that assist the teacher education students that they work with. This being said, a caution from Bestley (2018: 18) is well worth heeding, as there is the potential for educators to rely on stereotypical punk aesthetics and concepts that fall short of critically understanding the contexts and politics within which the cultural resources originate.…”

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Punk teacher education: Finding ways to interrupt the harmful effects of teacher accountabilities

Vass

2023

Research in Education

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In recent years a suite of policies and practices that are strongly influenced by efforts to make the work of educators and education providers more accountable, have had a powerful impact across the sector in settings such as Australia. In part, this goes some way to explaining why many working in the teaching profession report being dissatisfied with their role in education, and significant numbers leave the profession within the initial 5 years in Australia. Both in this context and beyond, there is a growing chorus of voices that encourage finding ways to push back and interrupt the impacts of accountability initiatives in education. Teacher education is itself one of the contexts in which this contestation is playing out, and whether it be voiced in terms of reimagining, revolutionising, or reclaiming education, the core sentiment can be interpreted as a type of call to arms for those working with educators. In this paper, I will make the case that punk can productively contribute to efforts responding to the influences of dominant culture in education. Punk in this usage can be thought of as social practices that generate cultural resources that can be utilised to question and critique dominant culture.

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Punk teacher education: Finding ways to interrupt the harmful effects of teacher accountabilities

Vass

2023

Research in Education

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“…Although LKR and modern band do not offer a critique of Eurocentric hegemony in US school music, per se , they serve as a reaction and practical response to it (Powell, Smith, & D’Amore, 2017). Conversely, much as punk has also always in some ways aligned with, been co-opted by, and perpetuated established institutions and practices (Bestley, 2017; Harniess, 2018), so LKR, through modern band, risks perpetuating a hegemonic form of popular music education (Hess, 2019).…”

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Little Kids Rock and modern band in US schools: A punk problematic

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Powell

Knapp

2022

Research in Education

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The pervasive Eurocentric model of music education in the United States is hegemonic, pursuing a model of performance excellence in large ensembles that, by the time young people reach high school, excludes most from music making opportunities in school. Despite numerous efforts to challenge the dominant paradigm since the 1960s, little change has happened from within the music education profession. Since 2002, nonprofit organization Little Kids Rock (Music Will) has leveraged outsider perspectives and philanthropic resources to galvanize momentum nationally towards adoption of curricula and musicking practices that focus more on popular musics and lifelong learning. Through a programme of professional development, curriculum provision and instrument donations, Little Kids Rock has both engaged in active resistance against, and established strategic partnerships with, state governments, university departments, school districts, major industry players including the National Association of Music Merchants, and education brands such as Berklee College of Music. Little Kids Rock promotes a new stream of music making called “modern band” as a disruptive phenomenon that emphasizes creativity, cultural relevance and student-centred learning while reinforcing entrenched hegemonic structures. Drawing on the history of Little Kids Rock and the modern band movement, the authors use Kahn-Egan’s (1998) five tenets of punk to frame a critical examination of the modern band phenomenon and the ways which Little Kids Rock operates at various points along punk’s ideological spectrum in attempting to “transform lives through restoring, expanding and innovating music education” in US schools.

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“…However, these counter-cultural claims do not always exist in practice. As both Bestley (2018) and Schwartz (2015) contend, punk's aesthetic practices (both in terms of visual and aural aesthetics) routinely build on and draw influence from mainstream music and arts traditions rather than acting in opposition to these cultural spaces. Similarly, countless artists have used DIY culture as a steppingstone towards broader commercial success (Verbuc, 2014), in turn contradicting the political ideologies espoused by some punks.…”

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The aesthetic pedagogies of DIY music

Woods

2020

Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies

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Despite the growing interest in punk pedagogy, or the examination of the educative practices of do-it-yourself (DIY) music and punk culture, extant literature has failed to investigate the embedded pedagogies and curricula within the performative aesthetics of these musical contexts.In this paper, I address this oversight by placing DIY and punk pedagogy literature in conversation with writings on relational aesthetics and Freirean aesthetic theory. In doing so, I propose that the aesthetics pedagogies of DIY music can both uplift and undermine the liberatory nature of punk music and DIY culture. By way of example, I analyze performances by hardcore band G.L.O.S.S. and percussionist Sarah Hennies. While both artists rely on relational aesthetics, the varying use of speculative spaces (McClure, 2013) and conflicting epistemological assumptions lead to divergent responses from the audience that align with the Freirean concepts of codifications and the banking model of education (Freire, 1970;1973).

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Art Attacks: Punk Methods and Design Education

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Punk teacher education: Finding ways to interrupt the harmful effects of teacher accountabilities

Punk teacher education: Finding ways to interrupt the harmful effects of teacher accountabilities

Little Kids Rock and modern band in US schools: A punk problematic

The aesthetic pedagogies of DIY music

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