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| Module Availability |
Weekly in Semester 1 |
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Components of Assessment
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Method(s)
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Percentage weighting
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Coursework (6,000 words total).
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Two assignments will be set,
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the first to be completed in the first half of the semester,
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50%
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The second to be submitted at the end of the module, this will be externally examined
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50%
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| Module Overview |
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| Prerequisites/Co-requisites |
Admission to the PG Diploma/MMus programme, Musicology route. |
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| Module Aims |
| To explore recent critical and interdisciplinary developments in the academic discussion of Western music. |
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| Learning Outcomes |
Situate contemporary musicological debates within the context of cognate disciplines; demonstrate understanding of key debates concerning the canon, construction of the text, gender and ethnicity, postmodernity etc; employ one or more of these debates in the process of close-reading. |
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| Module Content |
- Impact of postmodernism on issues of value & meaning;
- Impact of popular musicology;
- Music as performance;
- Decline of the canon;
- Critiquing the ‘New Musicology’;
- Influence of cultural & critical theory;
- Constructions of gender and ethnicity;
- Problematisation of history.
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| Methods of Teaching/Learning |
| Seminars, tutorials |
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| Selected Texts/Journals |
Bergeron & Bohlman (eds.) 1992 Disciplining music, Chicago UP.
Cook & Everist (eds.) 1999 Rethinking music, Oxford UP.
Easthope & McGowan (eds.) 1992 A critical & cultural theory reader, Open UP.
Kerman 1985 Musicology, Fontana.
Kramer 1995 Classical music and postmodern knowledge, California UP.
Martin 1995 Sounds & society, Manchester UP.
Milner 1994 Contemporary cultural theory an introduction, UCL Press. |
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| Last Updated |
11.12.06 |
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