Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

LJMU Partner Taught

Learning Methods

Lecture
Seminar

Module Offerings

4702MUS-SEP-PAR

Aims

This module aims to provide an understanding of a range of theoretical approaches for explaining current popular music contexts, and provide an understanding of appropriate research and writing skills.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Explain the relationships between key contextual factors and current popular music practice and discourse.
2.
Employ appropriate writing skills and conventions to communicate research outcomes.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:
The module is delivered through lectures and seminars over 28 weeks. Bi-weekly lectures focus on a range of popular music contextual aspects, such as industry, consumption, mediation, technology, identity, history, geography and politics.

Bi-weekly seminars provide opportunities for discussion of contextual aspects, concepts and theories, and formative feedback for students’ written work. Students use private study time for reading relevant texts, carrying out analysis of examples, and writing essay drafts for formative feedback.
Module Overview:
In this module, students explore how current popular music is created, mediated and consumed, within music industry and broader socio-cultural contexts. Focusing on specific examples of current popular music, students will become familiar with the relationships between music and its contexts, and the ways in which these relationships are understood, explained and debated. Students will also develop their research and writing skills and knowledge of academic conventions such as referencing.

Assessments

Essay