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Course Name	Turkish	Popüler Müzikte Eleştirel Yaklaşımlar
	English	Critical Approaches to Popular Music
Course Code	MZJ 516E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	1	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Songül Karahasanoğlu
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.
Course Outcomes		Graduate students who successfully pass this course gain the following knowledge, skills and competencies; I. Knowledge of critical and analytical approaches on popular music studies II. Competency on interpreting recent debates in popular music within the framework of academic-scientific literature. III. Skill and competency on presenting individual works in popular music studies. IV. Competency on improving an interdisciplinary critical approach through musicology and popular music theories.
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Textbook		• Negus, Keith. 1996. Popular Music in Theory, Middletown: Wesleyan University Press. • Horner, Bruce and Thomas Swiss. 1999. Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture. Blackwell Publishers.
Other References		• Middleton, Richard. 1990. Studying Popular Music, Berkshire: Open University Press. • Negus, Keith. 1996. Popular Music in Theory, Middletown: Wesleyan University Press. • Öztunç, Ali. 2017. Devr-i Mahzuni: Âşık Mahzuni Şerif’in Hikayesi. İstanbul: Doğan Kitap. • Dikici, Radi. 2018. Aşkın Kavurduğu Güneş Zeki Müren. İstanbul: Remzi Kitabevi. • Erol, Ayhan. 2009. Müzik Üzerine Düşünmek, İstanbul: Bağlam Yayınları. • Stokes, Martin. 2012. Aşk Cumhuriyeti Türk Popüler Müziğinde Kültürel Mahrem. Çev.Hira, Doğrul. İstanbul: Koç Üniversitesi Yayınları.

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