Courses Handbook 2010

10082 (v.7) Popular Music and Identity 221


Area: Department of Communication and Cultural Studies
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Syllabus (HB): In this unit the role of popular music in the production of identity- personal, sub-cultural and national. From a Cultural Studies perspective, music will be explored as a site of production and consumption within the context of global capitalism. How music frames the notions of generation (specifically youth), gender and sexuality, race and nation, and class, through a close study of several major musical movements in contemporary history, will also be explored.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 100700 Communication and Media Studies (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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