Learning Outcomes:
Students will be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the key issues in the study of popular music
- Assess and employ the methodology of ethnomusicology as a tool for examining popular music
- Write vivid accounts of live and mediated musical experiences
- Prepare, research, and produce a major ethnographic project on a specific topic in popular music of their choice
Indicative Module Content:
1. Introduction to Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies
2. Ethnomusicology: Theory and Method
3. Popular Music Studies: Key Concepts
4. The Music Industry
5. Production and Technology
6. The Discourse of Authenticity
7. Identity and the Racial Imagination
8. Gender and Popular Music
9. Liveness from Gigs to Festivals
10. Internet 2.0 and the Experience of Popular Music
11. Fandoms