Undergraduate Course: Popular Music, Technology and Society (SCIL10064)
Course Outline
| School | School of Social and Political Science |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| 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 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. |
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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? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2021/22, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 60 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
176 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Assessment will be by short paper (25%) and essay (75%). |
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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 | Prof Nicholas Prior
Tel: (0131 6)50 3991
Email: n.prior@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Ewen Miller
Tel: (0131 6)50 3925
Email: Ewen.Miller@ed.ac.uk |
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