2016/17 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

MUSS2725 Music, Culture, Politics: the Sixties

20 creditsClass Size: 25

Module manager: Dr
Email: d.schampaert@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2016/17

Pre-requisite qualifications

Experience in writing extended essays

This module is mutually exclusive with

MUSS2721	Music in Context A
MUSS2722	Music in Context B

This module is approved as a discovery module

Module summary

This module will look at the music, culture, politics, and art of one of the most creatively prolific eras of the last century. It will survey developments on both sides of the Atlantic, though major focus will be placed upon music, popular culture, and political developments in the United States, including the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, and Haight-Ashbury. The module will explore Dylan's journey from folk singer to electric rocker, the Beatles' progress from beat group to psychedelic gurus, and will examine the soundtracks that accompanied the emergence of the anti-war movement, the rise of the hippies in London and San Francisco, and the evolution of a new and confident black America, and its shift from peaceful protest to riots in the streets. Music will form the essential heart of our studies but other key influences - radical poets and thinkers, Eastern gurus, Pop artists, and underground film-makers - will feature in our consideration of a decade of explosive change.It will be taught by a combination of lectures and tutorials and will be assessed by a short written assignment and an essay.

Objectives

On completion of this module, students should be able to:
- demonstrate the broadening of their musical knowledge through study of a defined musicological area;
- apply appropriate historical, analytical, critical and comparative methodologies to the articulation and development of arguments;
- demonstrate the development of research and essay-writing skills
- develop an awareness of contextual approaches applicable to the repertoire studied.

Learning outcomes
Students will be able to demonstrate their understanding of the syllabus below by applying appropriate historical, analytical, critical and comparative methodologies to the articulation and development of arguments in the form of an extended essay.

Skills outcomes
• a broadening of musical knowledge
• application of appropriate historical, analytical, critical and comparative methodologies to the articulation and development of arguments
• the development of research and essay-writing skills
• an awareness of contextual approaches applicable to the repertoire above.

Syllabus

This module will look at the music and literature, culture and politics, fashion and art, of one of the most creatively prolific eras of the last century. It will survey developments on both sides of the Atlantic - from Civil Rights, the Vietnam War and Haight-Ashbury in the US to the Albert Hall Poetry Incarnation, Carnaby Street and International Times in the UK. It will explore Dylan's journey from folk singer to electric rocker and the Beatles' progress from beat group to psychedelic gurus. We will examine the soundtracks that accompany the emergence of the anti-war movement, the rise of the hippies in London and San Francisco and the evolution of a new and confident black America, and its shift from peaceful protest to riots in the streets. Music will form the essential heart of our studies but other key influences - radical poets and the novels of the Angry Young Men, Pop artists, kitchen sink dramatists and underground film-makers - will feature in our consideration of a decade of explosive change.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lecture	7	2.00	14.00
Tutorial	1	0.25	0.25
Private study hours			185.75
Total Contact hours			14.25
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Private study

4 hours evaluation of notes per lecture: c. 28 hours; reading and listening around the lecture topics c. 34 hours; Essay writing: c. 78 hours; Interim assignment preparation c. 46 hours

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

feedback on interim written assignment, tutorials.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	4000-4500 words	75.00
Assignment	Short written assignment with bibliography, 1000-1500 words	25.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 11/05/2017

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