MU1412:03
Contemporary Music
Townsville
HECS Band 1
26 hours lectures, 13 hours tutorials. Semester 2.
Available to BMus and BEd students who pass the University’s music rudiments test at entry or later.
Staff: Dr S Campbell, Mr R Daniel, Mr M Faragher, Mr D Sudmalis.
Developments in popular musical styles, forms and media since the mid-1950s will be studied through observation and analysis of selected music from a diversity of popular musicians. The subject will address a range of contemporary styles such as Rock, Pop, Rhythm and Blues, Metal, Rap and Techno.
Learning Objectives:
- acquire a familiarity with major musical repertoire, stylistic changes and associated terminology relevant to Western popular music since about 1955;
- acquire knowledge of the life, times and music of selected song-writers and performers;
- discuss, analyse and compare relationships between music and the other art forms selected during this period;
- aurally recognise, describe, analyse and compare selected pieces of music by a representative selection of song-writers and performers;
- relate changes in musical style to underlying social and intellectual theories, philosophies and aesthetics of the period;
- develop fundamental strategies in musical and historical judgement.
Assessment by seminar (25%); essay (2000-2500 words) (35%); end-of-semester examination (30%); attendance (10%).