PLT2040 - Raging Against the Machine: The Politics of Rock and Global Identities

Leader: Pete Lentini

Offered

Not offered in 2007

Synopsis

This unit analyses rock music as a site of contested political and cultural space and fuses these issues with a new politics of identity. The unit interrogates how different subcultures associated around post-Cold War rock genres use music as a form of political communication to advance their political agendas and celebrate their lifestyles and histories.

Assessment

Essay (3000 words): 65%
Open-book examination (1.5 hours - equivalent to 1500 words): 35%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Prerequisites

A first-year sequence in Politics or permission.

Prohibitions

COS 2/3840