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Undergraduate Course: Popular Music, Technology and Society (SCIL10064)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Social and Political Science CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Course typeStandard AvailabilityAvailable to all students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) Credits20
Home subject areaSociology Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionPopular 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.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesVisiting 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.
Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus?Yes
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2011/12 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1) WebCT enabled:  Yes Quota:  None
Location Activity Description Weeks Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
CentralLecture1-11 11:10 - 13:00
First Class Week 1, Tuesday, 11:10 - 13:00, Zone: Central. Room G.8, George Square 01, (Neuroscience)
No Exam Information
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course students will be able to:

1.Evaluate a range of concepts and approaches within sociology to the development of popular music.

2.Critically assess accounts of technological innovation in changing forms of musical production and consumption.

3.Recognise and comment on issues raised by the digitalisation of popular music, such as changing practices of music making and listening.
Assessment Information
Assessment will be by short paper (25%) and essay (75%).
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
Academic description Not entered
Syllabus Not entered
Transferable skills Not entered
Reading list Not entered
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Not entered
KeywordsPopular music, technology, society, digital, theory
Contacts
Course organiserDr Nicholas Prior
Tel: (0131 6)50 3991
Email: n.prior@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Sue Renton
Tel: (0131 6)50 6958
Email: Sue.Renton@ed.ac.uk
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