2008/09 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

MUSI2025 Approaches to the Analysis of Popular and World Musics

20 creditsClass Size: 43

Module manager: Mr Simon Warner
Email: s.r.warner@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2008/09

Pre-requisites

MUSI1020	Music in History and Culture
MUSI1225	Understanding Popular Styles

This module is not approved as an Elective

Objectives

On the successful completion of the module, students will be able to:
- critically apply forms of socio-cultural and historical analysis to different genres of popular and world musics;
- critically analyse and discuss examples of popular and world musics from different musicological and ethnomusicological perspectives;
- articulate and apply key concepts from a range of different perspectives, understanding differences between different intellectual traditions of investigation and study;
- draw connections and forge links between each element of the module and with concurrent and previous studies;
- discuss a wider range of musical styles;
- use primary and secondary sources in a critical and appropriate way.

Syllabus

This module will be delivered through a series of lectures and seminar-workshops. Students will study and apply different forms of analysis to examples of popular and world musics. Perspectives to be considered will include forms of socio-cultural and historical analysis and methods drawn from musicology and ethnomusicology.

Students will explore the values and limitations of the different approaches considered and will apply their developing skills to different musical texts.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lecture	22	1.00	22.00
Seminar	22	1.00	22.00
Private study hours			156.00
Total Contact hours			44.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Private study

156 hours

Methods of assessment

Exams

Exam type	Exam duration	% of formal assessment
Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc)	2 hr 00 mins	40.00
Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc)	2 hr 00 mins	60.00
Total percentage (Assessment Exams)		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: 14/01/2010

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