MENC has the results of an informal poll on music-focused television scripted and reality shows. It seems, based on the additional comments, that many people take the shows at face value when considering their use to (or problems for) music education. I was surprised that few responses discuss the use of these shows in the classroom or the role that music educators can play in recontextualizing them or re-mediating the meanings that students make from their engagement with these shows. I wrote about The Sing Off recently and discussed judging and the notion of “The Everyfan” in discourse related to American Idol as well as the use of American Idol in the classroom a while ago.
It will be interesting to see how music-focused shows continue to develop and how music educators choose to address them (or not) in their classrooms.
Now days there are many music focused television shows are organized for entertainment and to provide music related education.