PLT2040 - Raging against the machine: The politics of rock and global identities
6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL
Undergraduate Faculty of Arts
Leader(s): Pete Lentini
Offered
Not offered in 2009
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, PLT3040
13 October 2017
18 May 2024