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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : English

106-283/383 From Rock To Rap: Cultural Formations

Credit Points:

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Timetable:

Semester 1

Contact:

One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week

Subject Description:

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. The subject also examines briefly the unique characteristics of Aboriginal musical production. Students who complete the subject successfully will understand the major methods for analysing contemporary music cultures and the broad relation between governments and rock music culture. They will also appreciate how different cultural practices have coalesced around popular music in the post-war period.

Assessment:

Written work of not more than 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts:

Course reader available from the department.

  • , Our Place Our Music Aboriginal Music: Australian Popular Music in Perspective, Volume 2 Aboriginal Studies Press.
  • L Grossberg, We Gotta Get Out of this Place: Popular Conservatism and Postmodern Culture, Routledge.
  • M Breen, Missing in Action: Australian Popular Music in Perspective, volume 1 Melbourne Verbal Graphics.
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