'Teen Spirits is an excellent book on teaching pop music and a comprehensive, if demanding, study of a vast range of issues.' - The English & Media Magazine'Richard's findings are fascinating in themselves and add something of great value to our understanding of how music knowledge and notions of hipness are used to establish identity and relations of power within the classroom and between adult-youth groups.' - Peter McLuskie, Screen

• Introduction; Chapter 1 Youth, Music and Media Education; Chapter 2 Questions of Agency and Adolescence; Chapter 3 Classroom Research: Contexts and Identities; Chapter 4 Knowledge about Music?; Chapter 5 Transient, Tactical Knowledge; Chapter 6 Classroom Subjects; Chapter 7 Live Through This …; Chapter 8 Endtroducing;

'Teen Spirits is an excellent book on teaching pop music and a comprehensive, if demanding, study of a vast range of issues.' - The English & Media Magazine'Richard's findings are fascinating in themselves and add something of great value to our understanding of how music knowledge and notions of hipness are used to establish identity and relations of power within the classroom and between adult-youth groups.' - Peter McLuskie, Screen

• Introduction; Chapter 1 Youth, Music and Media Education; Chapter 2 Questions of Agency and Adolescence; Chapter 3 Classroom Research: Contexts and Identities; Chapter 4 Knowledge about Music?; Chapter 5 Transient, Tactical Knowledge; Chapter 6 Classroom Subjects; Chapter 7 Live Through This …; Chapter 8 Endtroducing;

'Teen Spirits is an excellent book on teaching pop music and a comprehensive, if demanding, study of a vast range of issues.' - The English & Media Magazine'Richard's findings are fascinating in themselves and add something of great value to our understanding of how music knowledge and notions of hipness are used to establish identity and relations of power within the classroom and between adult-youth groups.' - Peter McLuskie, Screen

• Introduction; Chapter 1 Youth, Music and Media Education; Chapter 2 Questions of Agency and Adolescence; Chapter 3 Classroom Research: Contexts and Identities; Chapter 4 Knowledge about Music?; Chapter 5 Transient, Tactical Knowledge; Chapter 6 Classroom Subjects; Chapter 7 Live Through This …; Chapter 8 Endtroducing;