MU1213 - Popular Music Studies

Credit points:	03
Year:	2005
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
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Available to all students except those enrolled in BMus.

This subject offers all students, even those without musical training, an opportunity to immerse themselves in the amazing variety of contemporary music. Developments in musical styles, forms and media will be studied through selected music from a diversity of popular musicians. A range of conemporary styles such as Rock, Pop, Rhythm and Blues, Metal, Rap and Disco is covered.

Learning Outcomes

• relate changes in musical style to underlying social and intellectual theories, philosophies and aesthetics of the period;
• acquire a basic 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;
• aurally recognise, describe and compare selected pieces of music by a representative selection of selected song-writers and performers;
• develop some intial strategies in musical and historical judgement;
• discuss, analyse and compare relationships between music and other art forms during this period.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments;
• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to speak and write logically, clearly and creatively;
• The ability to calculate, produce, interpret and communicate numerical information;
• The ability to access and employ online technologies effectively;
• A coherent and disciplined body of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics in at least one discipline area.

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:

MU1412

Availabilities
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Census Date 31-Aug-2005
Coord/Lect:	Professor Ryan Daniel.
Contact hours:	26 hours
Assessment:	(30%); (30%); (40%).
, , Study Period 2
Census Date 31-Aug-2005
Coordinator:	Professor Ryan Daniel
Lecturers:	Professor Ryan Daniel, jc153938.
Contact hours:	26 hours
Assessment:	(30%); (30%); (40%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.