Universität Wien
Lehrveranstaltungsprüfung

160061 VO Popular Music and Society (2020S)

Montag 09.11.2020 16:45 - 18:15 Digital

An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Prüfer*innen

Information

Prüfungsstoff

The Music Industry
- Business models
- A&R (Artists and repertoire)
- Marketing and distribution
- Rights and piracy issues

The Creative Process
- Musicians
- Social background
- Performance
- The role of the producer

Texts and Sounds
- Popular music as communication
- Authenticity
- Identities (gender, sexuality and race)
- Music videos

Audiences
- Fans as consumers and producers
- Subcultures and scenes
- Spaces and places
- Everyday life

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

1.5 hour exam consisting of two sections:
A. Short questions to determine students basic understanding of material covered in lecture (60%);
B. Essay on subject of student's choice (40%).

UPDATE 20.05.2020: The first exam (24 June) will be a digital "take home exam".
UPDATE 22.06.2020: The second exam (28 September) will be a digital "take home exam".
UPDATE 24.09.2020: Also the third (9 November) and fourth exam (11 January) will be a digital "take home exam".
Further information to be found on Moodle.

The exam will now be only B. from above, so the essay on a subject of the student's choice will constitute the whole exam. The 'take-home exam' will be posted on Moodle on 24 June (original exam date). You should submit your essay then by 30 June.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

By the end of the course students will be able to:
- understand popular music as a complex social and material process comprising numerous agents and institutions;
- see popular music texts not as autonomous art works but as media through which people enter into a range of social practices;
- situate individual popular music practices within larger economic, social, and political contexts;
- think critically about the different meanings and values ascribed to popular music by the stakeholders (industry executives, musicians, critics, fans).

Letzte Änderung: Fr 12.05.2023 00:17