Undergraduate Course: Popular Music, Technology and Society (SCIL10064)
Course Outline
| School | School of Social and Political Science |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | Popular music is one of the primary leisure and entertainment resources in late modern society and understanding links between technology, music and everyday life is an attractive way to exercise the sociological imagination. The course offers a representative selection of ways of studying pop music from a broadly cultural sociological perspective that attunes itself to the question of technology. It will be based on a mix of theoretical and empirical approaches to popular music?s socio-technical organisation and its active role in ordering everyday life. Topics will include: taste and consumption, the voice in popular music, the role of the DJ, iPods and digitalisation, live music and performance, video games and contemporary music, genre formation and the ?democratisation? of music production. |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Visiting students should have at least 3 Sociology or closely related courses at grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this). We will only consider University/College level courses.
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| High Demand Course? |
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Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Evaluate a range of concepts and approaches within sociology to the development of popular music
- Critically assess accounts of technological innovation in changing forms of musical production and consumption
- Recognise and comment on issues raised by the digitalisaton of popular music, such as changing practices of music making and listening
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Keywords | Popular music, technology, society, digital, theory |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Nicholas Prior
Tel: (0131 6)50 3991
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Course secretary | Mr Matthew Hathaway
Tel: (0131 6)51 7274
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