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120168 VO Advanced Cultural Studies Course (VO) = Cultural Studies (Modul 1, MA) (2010W)

Popular Music in Ireland from the Fifthies to the Noughties

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik

Details

Language: English

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 13.10. 14:00 - 15:30 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Wednesday 20.10. 14:00 - 15:30 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Wednesday 27.10. 14:00 - 15:30 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Wednesday 03.11. 14:00 - 15:30 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Wednesday 10.11. 14:00 - 15:30 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Wednesday 17.11. 14:00 - 15:30 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Wednesday 24.11. 14:00 - 15:30 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Wednesday 01.12. 14:00 - 15:30 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Wednesday 15.12. 14:00 - 15:30 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Wednesday 12.01. 14:00 - 15:30 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Wednesday 19.01. 14:00 - 15:30 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This is a lecture course examining the emergence of various forms of Irish popular music since the 1950s, and the role that music has played in the transformation of Irish society during this time. The approach is not musicological but cultural historical in outlook and methodology, as the various musical phenomena will be considered in relation to the wider social, cultural and political landscapes of Ireland over the past fifty years.

Assessment and permitted materials

Examination

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

1. To recognise the major trends in twentieth-century Irish history;

2. To appreciate the structural economy of the dominant forms of Irish music (folk, popular and art), and to recognise the various genres subsisting within those forms from the 1950s to the present;

3. To appreciate the ways in which popular music engages with discourses of gender, class and race;

Examination topics

1. To offer an overview of Irish political, social and cultural history during the twentieth century;

3. To consider the relationship between indigenous and international trends;

5. To develop the critical faculty of listening as part of the critique of popular musical discourse.

Reading list

Association in the course directory

Studium: Diplom 343, UF 344, ME 812, MA 844;
Code/Modul: 426/428, 436/438, 426/526, 526/528, 536/538, 721-723, ME1, MA1;
Lehrinhalt: 12-0202

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