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106-057 From Rock to Rave: Cultural Formations | |
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Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
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 | Not Offered (view timetable) |
Contact | A 1.5-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial per week |
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 | All students will be required to give a formal presentation to one tutorial. An essay of 1200 words 30% (due mid-semester) and a second essay of 2800 words 70% (due at the end of semester). |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available. |
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