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1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p56) : Next:106-295 | Prev:106-277
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd year
Coordinator: Marcus Breen.
Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will:
- understand and make use of the major methods for analysing contemporary music cultures;
- understand the broad relation between governments and rock music culture, as it has developed lately, particularly in Australia;
- appreciate how different cultural practices have coalesced around popular music in the post-war period;
- have an in-depth knowledge of a specific contemporary music culture or policy debate.
Content:
This subject explores the creation and development of music cultures from the birth of Rock and Roll to Rap. It will enable students to grasp the ways in which a wide range of specific rock genres (such as punk, heavy metal and disco) have helped mould cultural practices and generational self-representations and conflicts. In particular, youth cultures, centred on popular music, will be examined as an agent of cultural change in contemporary society: they are cultural formations which prefigure other transformations of everyday life. The subject will also briefly examine the unique characteristics of Aboriginal musical production because it offers a specific model of musical culture and political economy in Australia.
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p56) : Next:106-295 | Prev:106-277
2. Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p47) : Next:106-295 | Prev:106-268
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd year
Coordinator: Marcus Breen.
Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will:
- understand and make use of the major methods for analysing contemporary music cultures;
- understand the broad relation between governments and rock music culture, as it has developed lately, particularly in Australia;
- appreciate how different cultural practices have coalesced around popular music in the post-war period;
- have an in-depth knowledge of a specific contemporary music culture or policy debate.
Content:
This subject explores the creation and development of music cultures from the birth of Rock and Roll to Rap. It will enable students to grasp the ways in which a wide range of specific rock genres (such as punk, heavy metal and disco) have helped mould cultural practices and generational self-representations and conflicts. In particular, youth cultures, centred on popular music, will be examined as an agent of cultural change in contemporary society: they are cultural formations which prefigure other transformations of everyday life. The subject will also briefly examine the unique characteristics of Aboriginal musical production because it offers a specific model of musical culture and political economy in Australia.
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
* Note that PRESCRIBEDTEXTS differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.
2. Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p47) : Next:106-295 | Prev:106-268
3. English, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p101) : Next:106-295 | Prev:106-277
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Marcus Breen.
Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial each week
Timetable: First semester.
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will:
- understand and make use of the major methods for analysing contemporary music cultures;
- understand the broad relation between governments and rock music culture, as it has developed lately, particularly in Australia;
- appreciate how different cultural practices have coalesced around popular music in the post-war period; and
- have an in-depth knowledge of a specific contemporary music culture or policy debate.
Content:
This subject explores the creation and development of music cultures from the birth of Rock and Roll to Rap. It will enable students to grasp the ways in which a wide range of specific rock genres (such as punk, heavy metal and disco) have helped mould cultural practices and generational self-representations and conflicts. In particular, youth cultures, centred on popular music, will be examined as an agent of cultural change in contemporary society: they are cultural formations which prefigure other transformations of everyday life. The subject will also briefly examine the unique characteristics of Aboriginal musical production because it offers a specific model of musical culture and political economy in Australia.
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
* Note that CONTACT, OBJECTIVES, POINTS, PRESCRIBEDTEXTS differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.
3. English, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p101) : Next:106-295 | Prev:106-277
4. Music, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p154) : Next:740-332 | Prev:740-384
Elementary Stream Music subject.
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Marcus Breen.
Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial each week
Timetable: First semester.
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will:
- understand and make use of the major methods for analysing contemporary music cultures;
- understand the broad relation between governments and rock music culture, as it has developed lately, particularly in Australia;
- appreciate how different cultural practices have coalesced around popular music in the post-war period; and
- have an in-depth knowledge of a specific contemporary music culture or policy debate.
Content:
This subject explores the creation and development of music cultures from the birth of Rock and Roll to Rap. It will enable students to grasp the ways in which a wide range of specific rock genres (such as punk, heavy metal and disco) have helped mould cultural practices and generational self-representations and conflicts. In particular, youth cultures, centred on popular music, will be examined as an agent of cultural change in contemporary society: they are cultural formations which prefigure other transformations of everyday life. The subject will also briefly examine the unique characteristics of Aboriginal musical production because it offers a specific model of musical culture and political economy in Australia.
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
* Note that CONTACT, OBJECTIVES, POINTS, PRESCRIBEDTEXTS differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.
4. Music, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p154) : Next:740-332 | Prev:740-384
Status: Official 1996 Date created: Oct 9 1995 Last modified: Oct 9 1995 Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
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