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107-072 Sound & Vision: Art & Popular Music | |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Dr Chris McAuliffe |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 2-hour seminar per week |
Subject Description | This subject explores the interaction of art and popular music since 1950. Areas of study will include: pop art images of rock and roll; the impact of performance art on rock; the visual culture of popular music; recent constructions of postmodern identity and visuality through subcultural style and mass media technologies. Media and practices examined will include: performance; design (graphic art, costume, stage, lighting); film and video (bio-pics, music videos, installation); recording (sampling, lo-fi, bootlegging); multimedia. Key musical genres considered will be; pop, glam, art rock, punk, lo-fi, retro-pop, ambient, and techno. On completion of the subject students should have developed an understanding of the historical, structural and aesthetic foundations of the interaction of art and popular music. |
Assessment | A classpaper of 2000 words and an essay of 3000 words. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available. |
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