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A Punk Pedagogical Approach to Genre

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One of the assignments I remember most from high school was my junior year research paper – not because it was a research paper – but because of the topic. As a high school student I loved music and was excited that I could research something I was interested in. For my project I researched the Parents’ Music Resource Center (PMRC).

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Buchanan, R.J. (2016). A Punk Pedagogical Approach to Genre. In: Johnson, L.L., Goering, C.Z. (eds) Recontextualized. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-606-4_10

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