MZJ 516E - Critical Approaches to Popular Music

Course Objectives

• Analyze popular music studies within ethnomusicology theories periodically.
• To possess a critical approach on contemporary musics through popular music theories and deepen the knowledge of the music, consumed and/or produced.
• To understand and apply theoretical approaches on popular music writings
• To interpret popular music from the perspective of cultural theories.

Course Description

Analyzing popular music studies that progress as a recent area in musicology. Improving an interdisciplinary critical approach through some theories such as popular culture, identity, history, industry, globalization, gender etc. Music industry and technology. Music video studies. Semiotics in popular music. Aesthetics of popular music.