FTVMS 713

Media, Sound and Music

Please note: this is archived course information from 2017 for FTVMS 713.

Description

This course explores sound in the media, in particular, popular music. We engage with debates and approaches to audio culture in and across media and communication studies, sound studies, popular music studies, sociology, cultural studies, ethnomusicology and musicology.

The topics we discuss include: the social and political meanings of noise; how people listen; the affective power of music and musical experiences; the mediation of music in and through technologies; musicians as performers, artists, celebrities and workers; the sounds of recorded music; the qualities of recorded voices; audio-vision, or the combination of sounds and images in film, television and other audiovisual media; formats and material culture such as the mp3 and the vinyl record; mobile music; the political economy of music in the age of digitalisation and online music; music and cultural policies.

Students are not expected to have specialised or technical knowledge about sound and music. They write weekly reading responses/blog posts to support classroom discussion, and pursue a research project of their choice through various stages - a classroom presentation outlining the project, a research proposal and research paper.

Availability 2017

Semester 2

Lecturer(s)

Coordinator(s) Associate Professor Nabeel Zuberi

Points

FTVMS 713: 30 points

Prerequisites

Restrictions

FTVMS 730, 738