Sociology of popular music
R Wolfgramm
8 points
* 3 hours per week
* First semester
* Peninsula
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Prerequisites: First-year SCY sequence or equivalent
Objectives On completion of this subject students should have become familiar with sociological concepts useful for a critical analysis of popular music generally; skills for identifying the social sources and types of popular music that give rise to the rock etc; acquired an understanding of the historical-political context of popular music since World War Two; applied their sociological imagination - perspectives and concepts - to the practice of popular music research.
Synopsis Historical and critical analysis of the production, communication, consumption and social contexts and implications of youth music of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s; popular music forms and icons; popular music as commodity and art; popular music technology, performances, audiences, and mass media central to youth `revolutions' of these eras; the `rock is dead' thesis and the ongoing impact of the last four decades of youth on music of the 1990s.
Assessment Essay (2500 words): 40%
* Project (2500 words): 40%
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Test (1 hour): 20%
Prescribed texts
Bayles M Hole in our soul Free Press, 1994
Middleton R Studying popular music Open U P, 1991
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