MUSA333-18S2 (C) Semester Two 2018

Popular Music in Context

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 16 July 2018
End Date: Sunday, 18 November 2018
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 29 July 2018
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 14 October 2018

Description

An exploration of contemporary popular music styles from a range of genres, and their historical significance and wider contexts, including music for film and television, and the rise of music video.

The discipline of musicology explores the role of music in history, society, and culture. At its broadest, it includes all genres of music, and includes varied approaches to history, as well as exploring intersection of music and other topics (such as social and political change, revolution, and colonisation).

This course offers an exploration of contemporary popular music styles from a range of genres, and their historical significance and wider contexts, and an appreciation of music in applied and collaborative situations such as music for film and television, and the rise of music video.

Students in the 300-level version of the course will have expanded course readings and different assessments.

Topics covered in this course include:  
• Race and Popular Music in the USA
• The Popular Music Industry: Its history and modes of operation
• Early Rock’n’Roll
• Motown
• The “British Invasion”
• Counterculture(s)
• Psychedelia and Progressive Rock
• Punk and Post-Punk
• Hip Hop
• EDM
• Indie and Alternative Rock
• Globalisation and localisation
• Music videos, fashion and their relationship with popular music
• Popular music production and producers
• The relationship between popular music and recording and music technologies
• The changing sociocultural status of popular musics

Learning Outcomes

  • Students who pass this course will:
  • Have a knowledge of topics in popular music including historical, historical groupings and schools, biographical, social, philosophical and technical aspects of popular music compositions, styles and the way the music industry grows, produces, distributes and promotes popular music
  • Music research techniques including use of music libraries and on-line databases;
  • Library research skills;
  • Have developed literacy and tertiary study skills

    Students who pass MUSA333 will have developed a more sophisticated understanding and vocabulary in their assignments and discussions as well as exploring more extensive topics

Prerequisites

30 points of MUSI or MUSA at 200-level, or
any 45 points at 200-level

Restrictions

Timetable Note

Student workload (150 hours) will be allocated to:
• 24 hours attending lectures
• 12 hours attending tutorials
• 15 hours writing essay
• 24 hours writing review assignment
• 26 hours interview/research assignment
• 25 hours preparing for listening test
• 24 hours reading/listening around subject

Course Coordinator

James Gardner

Lecturers

Reuben de Lautour and Justin DeHart

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Essay (3000 words) 35% In August
Seminar Presentation (15 Minutes) With Written Component 35% Oral Presentation Weeks 10, 11. Written submission in week 12, October
Listening Test (45 Minutes) 30% In October


All assessments are due by 5 pm on the specified date. Assessment material must be submitted as Word documents, uploaded via LEARN. In the event of online submission via LEARN not working, please contact the Course Co-ordinator for advice and alternative submission methods.
There are three assessment items for this course.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $834.00

International fee $3,600.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Creative and Digital Arts .

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