Welcome to Popular Music Studies, MUS2605

Popular Music Studies is about 50 years in the making. This course attempts to take a look at some of the classic texts as well as consider where Popular Music Studies is currently going. The course serves as an introduction to the field, and some of the significant themes to be considered are: Popular Music History; historiography; sound; listening/writing; texts/contexts; critical theory; aesthetics; audiences/identities; gender studies; voice; authorship; authenticities; place/culture/nations; industries/music production; mediation/circulation; objects/materiality; genre/scenes; live/recording; musical and cultural analysis.