• CRIT1022
  • Pop Music:Cult.,Texts,Contexts

  • Credits (ECTS): 5
  • Media

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Overview

Module Description

This module introduces learners to a range of theoretical, cultural and historical issues that shape our understanding of the popular music text; it's production and consumption. It provides an introduction to key concepts relating to the role of music in the areas of identity, gender and race. These are considered within the broader contextual paradigm of debates pertaining to the evolution, form and function of the Culture Industries. As the module progresses, it discusses and evaluates major critical approaches to popular music and a range of related paradigm shifts that have occurred over the past sixty years. It also considers the role played by different musical genres in the formation of subcultures and evaluates the work of key artists in the evolution of popular music

Indicative Syllabus

The evolution of the popular music industry (Longhurst, Negus)
Concepts of mass culture (Adorno)
Music and subcultures (Hebdige,McRobbie, Thornton)
Pop and the politics of protest. (Street)
Pop and gender (Frith & McRobbie, Dyer, Auslander)
Black music and identity (Rose, Chang)
Music & Irish Identity (Woodward, Smyth, O'Connor)
Dylan and Truth (Berlin, Marcus, Ricks)

ISCED:321: DO NOT USE - ARCHIVE HEA 2014
Total Contact Teaching Hours:24

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