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106-057 From Rock to Rave: Cultural Formations | |
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Note | Formerly available as 106-283/383. Students who have completed 106-283 or 106-383 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | To be advised |
Prerequisites | Fifty points of first year arts including at least 25 points from a specified list of subject areas, see Prerequisites. |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | Thirty hours of lectures and tutorials scheduled across the semester |
Subject Description | This subject provides an overview of cultural studies' approaches to contemporary popular music. Students will be introduced to the interdisciplinary traditions of scholarship that have emerged in the study of popular music's relationship to its sociocultural contexts. The subject will also provide students with the analytical skills and methodological confidence to undertake small-scale studies of contemporary musical practices. Topics will include youth subcultures; postmodern sensibilities in rock; Australian musical production; the music industry; contemporary Aboriginal music; world music; and music-video. |
Assessment | Class participation, and written work totalling 4000 words. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available. |
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