Course Schedule
Lehrveranstaltungen
Popular Music and Cultural Memory (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Monika Schoop
Termin:
wöchentlich | Montag | 12:15 - 13:45 | 08.04.2019 - 01.07.2019 | C 16.310 Musik
Inhalt: This course gives an introduction to the rapidly growing field of research on popular music and cultural memory. The unit is divided into three parts. The first part outlines key terms and concepts of cultural memory studies and provides theoretical approaches for studying music as cultural memory. Building on this foundation, the second part explores a diverse range of case studies from the fields of popular music studies, ethnomusicology, sociology, sound studies, media and memory studies. Attention will be paid to popular music as a medium of memory, asking how popular music serves as a vehicle for the construction and negotiation of (individual and collective) memories, and popular music as an object of memory, inquiring into how popular music artists, scenes and events are being remembered. Individual studies will highlight music's sonic, textual and performative character, as well as its material dimensions, inquiring into how music-related places objects, texts, and technological artefacts become inscribed with memory. In the final section of the course, students will apply the acquired knowledge to a local example of their choice and present their findings in class.
Social and sociological Aspects of Popular Music (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Wolf-Reinhard Kemper
Termin:
wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 10:15 - 11:45 | 03.04.2019 - 03.07.2019 | C 16.207 Musik
Inhalt: Basis of this seminar is a focus on social aspects on music, musicians and music users. Essays and articles of international music studies written by Middleton, Schafer, Gracyk and other are the basics of the presentation. Who use music? Who needs music? Who is able to bay music? Many questions need answers. It is our right to demand answers. This seminar is looking for different ways to find proper questions and correct answers. To turn toward by different views on sociological aspects on music it is important to know the positions of culture, art, economic, commercial and political standpoints. Motivation on exact positioning is the intention of the semester-lessons.