Spring 2021  |  CSCL 3251 Section 001: Popular Music and Mass Culture (51228)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Mode
Online Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021
Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:
Open (37 of 48 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
This course investigates the ways popular music is imbricated with the our identities, social affiliations and attitudes towards others on the scale of millions of people - what we might call "mass culture." We will explore how popular music produces emotion, a sense of intoxication, and erotic desire; how it can be linked with self-discipline, bodily exercise, state security, sovereign authority, patriotism, courage, punishment, and violence; and how music might be heard related to labor and work, consumerism and consumption, and capitalism more broadly. We will puzzle over the ways music can give coherence to a cultural group, accompany moral education and action, challenge or reinforce gender conventions, mobilize and disperse political resistance, or lead one into a trance of spiritual and religious ecstasy. While we will still attend to a variety of "purely" musical elements both large and small (chords, verses, choruses, singing styles, lyrics, etc.), our central focus will be on forming a more philosophical view of its functions within popular culture. Genres to be discussed include rock, pop, hip-hop, R&B, electronic dance music, performances of the national anthem, and experimental music.
Class Notes:
This course was previously listed as CSCL 3172 under the same title. CSCL 3172 and CSCL 3250 are equivalent.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
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