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MUSC 490 Gender and Popular Music Units: 3.00
In this course we explore gender, sexuality and performativity in Western popular music with an emphasis on musical technologies, musical consumption practices, and sonic and visual texts. A range of musical genres will be covered with a particular emphasis on rock, pop, country, rap, and R and B.
NOTE Not open to students who previously have taken Gender and Popular Music as a special topics course (MUSC 475, Special Topics in Music I).
NOTE Not open to students who previously have taken Gender and Popular Music as a special topics course (MUSC 475, Special Topics in Music I).
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Seminar, 12 Online Activity, 72 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite Level 3 or above.
Exclusion MUSC 475 (Topic Title: Gender and Popular Music - 2013/14 to 2016/17).
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze and critique relationships between these key socio-cultural concepts in the field at both the individual and societal level within the context of popular music.
- Explore and provide working definitions of key socio-cultural concepts ("sex", "gender" etc.) and to understand them at the intersection of race, ethnicity, class and ability.
- Identify how these concepts both shape and are shaped by popular music practices.
- Learn to lead discussions on assigned readings and support students as they analyze and synthesize concepts within small group work.
- To evaluate informational sources and question these sources and their validity.
- To learn to analyze information and concepts, formulate strong questions and propose compelling arguments in a research-based paper.