Monday, September 24, 2007
All Music Of Jammin' Internations
AMOJI, All Music Of Jammin' Internations, is a student-run organization at Boston Latin School that emphasizes on sharing and spreading international art and music. When the club was first created in 2003, the focus was on Japan -- its music, its manga, its fashion. Although AMOJI is a school-based group, the members regularly attend performances by local and mainstream music artists outside of school. During high school, I was only a part-time participant; I occassionaly dropped by during their Wednesday afternoon gatherings, stayed to watch a music video or two, then went on my way. Still, I felt a connection to the other members of AMOJI because we all had something in common -- an arguably obsessive love for the visual appeals of artists and their performances: clothing, makeup, the way they sing, the way they dance. For this project, I hope to explore this obssession, find out why high school students aged 13 to 18 are so drawn to the visual aspects of music.
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This is a great topic, and your insider status should certainly help make it a fruitful one. At this point you need to be thinking about finding some parallel case studies and scholarly/web sources that will help you contextualize your findings. Here are a few possible starting points:
Skelton, Tracey and Gill Valentine, eds. 1998. Cool Places: Geographies of Youth Cultures. New York: Routledge.
Epstein, Jonathon S. 1998. Youth Culture: Identity in a Postmodern World. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell.
Huq, Rupa. 2006. Beyond Subculture: Pop, Youth and Identity in a Postcolonial World. London: Routledge.
I think if you did some web searching you could also find other youth collectives like the one you're working on.
such a nice summary.. *gets teary-eyed*
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