Undergraduate - UnitATS3824 - Popular music and society

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Organisational Unit	Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music
Offered	Clayton First semester 2015 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Jonathan McIntosh

Synopsis

Highlighting the nexus between performers, audiences and the global music industry, this unit investigates the complex relationship between popular music and society, and the ways in which the two are inextricably linked. Possible topics explored in the unit include popular music and gender, genre, globalisation, performance analysis, reception and 'world music'. In addition, students develop research skills by undertaking an ethnographic project.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:

Understand how selected scholars theorise and approach the relationship between popular music and society;
Apply theories and approaches pertaining to the study of popular music to musical situations and structures in our society and evaluate their relevance and usefulness;
Demonstrate research skills by conducting an ethnographic project.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Jonathan McIntosh

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Music