Tyler Bickford
- Professor
Tyler's Affiliations: Children's Literature, Global Studies Center
Tyler Bickford teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in children’s literature and childhood studies. He advises graduate students working in those fields, as well as students studying media and technology and using ethnographic methods. He is the author of Tween Pop: Children’s Music and Public Culture (Duke University Press, 2020) and Schooling New Media: Music, Language, and Technology in Children's Culture (Oxford University Press, 2017).
Courses Taught
Seminar in Composition, ENGCMP 0200
Children and Culture, ENGLIT 0560
Childhood’s Books, ENGLIT 0562
Introduction to Science Fiction, ENGLIT 0626
Childhood Games, ENGLIT 0762
Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature, ENGLIT 1645
Children and Media, ENGFLM 1479
Children’s Literature (graduate), ENGLIT 2800
Education & Training
- PhD in ethnomusicology, Columbia University, 2011
- BA, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, 2001
Representative Publications
Tween Pop: Children’s Music and Public Culture (Duke University Press, 2020)
Schooling New Media: Music, Language, and Technology in Children's Culture (Oxford University Press, 2017)
(with Kai Arne Hansen) “Negotiating Girlhood in Rock Music: Nandi Bushell, Prodigy Discourse, and Adult Mentor-fans,” Popular Music 42/2 (2023): 123–42
“The Kindie Movement: Independent Children’s Music in the United States Since 2000,” in Music in Early Childhood: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives and Inter-disciplinary Exchanges, edited by Beatriz Ilari and Susan Young, pp. 223–33 (Springer, 2019)
“Music of Poetry and Poetry of Song: Expressivity and Grammar in Vocal Performance,” Ethnomusicology 51/3 (2007): 439–76
Research Interests
Children’s Music, Children's Literature, Childhood Studies, Popular Music, Ethnographic Methods