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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of Social and Political Science : Sociology

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

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Social and Political Science CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryPopular 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 popular music from a broadly cultural sociological perspective that attunes itself to the question of technology, particularly digital and virtual technology. It will be based on a mix of theoretical and empirical approaches to popular music's socio-technical organisation, changing habits of music consumption and music's active role in ordering everyday life. Topics will include: streaming and the shape and nature of the music industry after Napster, the voice in popular music, virtual culture and music, digital democratisation, live music, and virtual idols.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements 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.
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2021/22, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  60
Course Start Semester 2
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 20, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 176 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Assessment will be by short paper (25%) and essay (75%).
Feedback Not entered
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student 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 digitalisaton of popular music, such as changing practices of music making and listening
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsPopular music,technology,society,digital,theory
Contacts
Course organiserProf Nicholas Prior
Tel: (0131 6)50 3991
Email: n.prior@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMr Ewen Miller
Tel: (0131 6)50 3925
Email: Ewen.Miller@ed.ac.uk
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