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MUED4006: Popular Music Studies
2024 unit information
This unit examines approaches to the teaching and learning of popular music, and the practices of its many cultures. This includes the study of the problems of defining popular music, of relevant literature, considerations of the place of popular music in music education, analysis methods suitable for investigating popular music at the high school level, songwriting and the performance of popular music, and emerging technologies in relation to popular music studies. Students engage in the latest research, philosophies, and pedagogies around popular music in formal music education, learning to prepare resources for learning and music-making, and eventually creating their own multi-tracked popular music.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Music Education
| Code | MUED4006 |
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| Academic unit | Music Education |
| Credit points | 3 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. demonstrate a sound grasp of a number of core conceptual and definitional issues relating to Popular Music Studies as an academic discipline and its place in school music education
- LO2. demonstrate an understanding of implications of popular music’s ‘awkwardness’ in the context of formal study programs
- LO3. demonstrate a sound knowledge of pedagogical issues surrounding popular music studies in music education, relating to instrumental skills, media literacies and popular music technologies, and of the history of popular music
- LO4. demonstrate a familiarity with key strands in the musicology of popular music through analysis, performance, and composition in its various forms
- LO5. critically analyse your own musical background/identity and understand popular music as a music of the cultures that children participate in
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