FMCS2100Music and Culture

Course handbook

Description

Music is everywhere: on our phones, in film and TV, on YouTube and in our living rooms. Music shapes and informs our media consumption, our relationships, our identity, and our experience of the world. This course examines how music provides not only entertainment, but a common space for personal, social, and political experiences. We will consider what is music beyond sound and noise. This course explores the cultural role of music and the music industry and unpack how music culture circulates. This course is about describing and analysing the shared conventions and associations that allow music and sound to have meaning, and how that culture around music and music culture creates meaning. This course encourages students to think “beyond the music itself” to consider what makes music a powerful and pervasive force in our culture.

Availability

Not currently offered.

This Course was last offered in Semester 2 - 2022.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course students will be able to:

1. Describe the relationship between music and culture.

2. Illustrate the significance of concepts like genre, authenticity, and identity to music culture.

3. Analyse the relationship between music and culture.

4. Combine scholarship with original analysis in a music culture case study.

Content

The course focuses on the relationship between music and culture. The course topics may include:

• Music as culture and the cultural study of music
• Musical celebrity and stardom
• Music and visuality: music videos, musicals and reality TV
• Music styles and genres
• Intersections of gender, race, class and music
• Music subcultures, identities and experiences
• Music and technology

Assumed knowledge

20 units of 1000 level courses

Assessment items

Quiz: Online quiz

Written Assignment: Annotated playlist

Project: Research project

Course outline

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