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Anthro 106/106G:  Issues in History in Popular Music

SEMESTER ONE, 2019

15 points

 

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Course Convenor: 

Kirsten Zemke - k.zemke@auckland.ac.nz

Tutors
Kooshna Gupta kgup987@aucklanduni.ac.nz (Mon 10, Mon 11. Wed 9, Wed 10)
John Jang hjan700@aucklanduni.ac.nz (Tues 9, Tues 10, Tues 12, Tues 4)
Daniel Hernandez d.hernandez@auckland.ac.nz (Fri 1, Fri 2)
Ata Siulua (Kaiako) ssiu623@aucklanduni.ac.nz (Mon 12, Wed 4)

Course delivery format:

2 hours of lectures and 1 hour of tutorial

 

COURSE SYLLABUS ANTHRO 106 2019 LECTURE OUTLINE AND READINGS.pdf

 

Summary of Course Description:              

 A survey of popular music styles, artists, culture and issues which explores facets such as genre, subculture, industrial controls, politics, the sales process, race and gender.

 

PURPOSE OF THIS COURSE IS TO:

  • Introduce strategies and the importance of studying popular music from an academic perspective
  • Approach a broad history of popular music looking at key styles and periods
  • Communicate current research-based understandings of popular music from a range of theoretical, methodological and historical perspectives
  • Assist students in the further development of key skills which include reading, writing and critical thinking
  • Get students to apply critical thinking to something they are familiar with
  • Enhance students’ understandings of the ubiquitous social, economic and artistic phenomenon that is popular music and stimulate interest in the field of study

 

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

  • At the completion of the course students are expected to:
  •  Demonstrate an understanding of some of the key decades and sub-genres of popular music
  • Be able to apply theoretical perspectives of race, gender and power to set genre and historical periods of popular music
  • Be familiar with some of the key research and academic writing on popular music
  • Be familiar with some of the key genre, styles and artists explored in the course
  • Demonstrate skills in reading, note-taking, critical thinking and writing at the appropriate level

 

 

 Assessment Summary:

10% Tutorials

20% Essay

20% Essay           

50% exam

 

Weekly Topics (subject to change):

 Week 1 Style vs. Industry

 Week 2 Gender and Sexuality

Week 3  Rock and Roll

Week 4 Sixties and seventies Rock

Week 5 Country Music 

Week 6  Rock Subculture and Canon

Week 7 Jump Jive & Boogie

Week 8 Soul, Funk, R & B

Week 9 Hip Hop I

Week 10 Hip Hop II

Week 11 EDM

Week 12 Popular Music and Race

 

Prescribed Texts:

Articles on Canvas  (under Reading Lists)

 

 

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