50133 Music and Popular Culture

8cp
Requisite(s): 50108 Contemporary Cultures 2 OR 50229 Contemporary Cultures 2
These requisites may not apply to students in certain courses. See access conditions.
Disciplinary Strand – Cultural Studies – 200 level

This Cultural Studies subject covers a wide range of popular music from blues and jazz to dance, techno and electronica as well as the politics of the popular music industry, globally and in Australia. The particular focus of the course is on the relationship of popular music to identity, locality, cultural geography and globalisation. Subject areas covered include methodological approaches to popular music and writing about music, world music, post-rock, noise and indie music, music and race, music and gender, rap and hip hop, sampling, the avant-garde, Australian Aboriginal music, rave culture, music and the Internet, lounge music, exotica and elevator music. The overall focus is on the social and cultural production and reception of popular music, rather than a musicological approach, and emphasis is placed on issues of ethnicity, authenticity, hybridity, syncretism, appropriation and the representation of social formations.

For detailed information, see the full subject description at:
http://www.hss.uts.edu.au/subject_descriptions/50133.pdf

Typical availability

Spring semester, City campus

Fee information

2006 contribution for 2005/06 commencing Commonwealth-supported undergraduate students: $816.50
2006 amount for undergraduate domestic fee-paying students: $2,920.00
Subject EFTSL: 0.167
Note: The above fees are applicable in 2006 for 2005/06 commencing Commonwealth-supported and domestic fee-paying undergraduate students only. Pre-2005 Commonwealth-supported undergraduate students should consult the Student contribution charges for Commonwealth supported students webpage.
Not all students are eligible for Commonwealth supported places, and not all subjects are available to Commonwealth supported students. Other students (such as postgraduate students and international students) should refer to the Fees webpage.

Access conditions

Note: The requisite information presented in this subject description covers only academic requisites. Full details of all enforced rules, covering both academic and admission requisites, are available at Access conditions and My Student Admin.