107-425 Sound and Vision: Art & Popular Music

Formerly available as 107-072. Students who have completed 107-072 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Admission to the postgraduate diploma or fourth-year honours in art history or cultural studies.

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.