Essay

2 - Written assignment (including essay) - 70

Oral presentation

1 - Oral assessment and presentation - 30

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Topics may include: 
<ul><li>Technologies of production and consumption and digital reproduction </li></ul>
<ul><li>‘viral’ videos and new directions in musical multimedia </li></ul>
<ul><li>Music and advertising, signification, brands and cultural identity  </li></ul>
<ul><li>Covers, Mashups, Remixes </li></ul>
<ul><li>Identity and Longevity in Celebrity Society. </li></ul>
<ul><li>Feminism / Fauxminism and Agitprop Pop </li></ul>
<ul><li>Posthuman Pop, Performance and Liveness </li></ul>
<ul><li>Genre Identity: R&amp;B, UK Grime, Hip Hop </li></ul>
<ul><li>Hybridity: transnational popular music  </li></ul>
<ul><li>Pop music, austerity and nostalgia  </li></ul>
<ul><li>Popular music and the state </li></ul>

Feedback is provided in a number of ways throughout your module. This includes feedback you receive during teaching from both peers and lecturers and that provided for formative assessment. Following an assessment, you will be given your marks and feedback in line with the assessment regulations and policy. More information on the timing and type of feedback that will be provided for each assessment will be available from the module leader. <a href='https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations'>https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations</a>

This module will support the development of all the graduate attributes. Your module leader will provide you with information about how your learning, teaching and assessment activities support your development of these attributes. The graduate attributes are: - Always learning - Engaged in the world - Technical and digital - Connected Professional - Creating Impact

In-Person - 

Self-directed - 

Queer Voices in Hip Hop: Cultures, Communities, and Contemporary   Performance.

Women and Popular Music: Sexuality, Identity, and Subjectivity

London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 

Popular Music Culture: The Key Concepts

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music, Space   and Place

Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America

Popular Music Fandom: Identities, Roles and Practices

The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage

The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music and Gender

London:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Musicology

Misogyny, Toxic Masculinity, and Heteronormativity in   Post-2000 Popular Music

MU3116 - Popular Music Now!

MU3116-PRD1-ALV1

You will learn via a mixture of lectures and seminars encompassing discussion, guided listening, analysis, and small group activities. You are encouraged to undertake extensive reading, listening and independent study to understand the topics covered in lectures and seminars. Tutorials are provided to support your preparation for assessments. Key learning and teaching resources are available on Moodle.
Self-directed learning hours are for independent study and account for the minimum amount of time you should spend studying independently. Self-directed learning includes carrying out research, reflecting on ideas and techniques learned in class, reading widely to develop a deeper understanding of the subject, carrying out tasks set on Moodle, and completing individual assignments and other homework.

Popular Music Now!

Assess and evaluate a variety of musical approaches and styles since the year 2000, and the relationships between major developments that have taken place during that timeframe. 

Knowledge

Apply critical audio-visual evaluation skills audio and multimedia materials to support independent arguments.  

Skills

Respect and acknowledge the ideas and work of others. 

Values and attitudes

Apply methodologies suitable for the academic discussion of contemporary popular music and understand why certain methods are in/appropriate. 

Construct and articulate a developed critical engagement with the central issues in contemporary popular music scholarship. 

Critically evaluate and effectively deploy the key concepts relevant to contemporary popular music discourse, theories and reception. 

Argue a developed critical stance in relation to evaluating the cultural, political, social, technical, technological and practical considerations that have shaped and continue to shape contemporary popular music. 