COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CURRENT AND POPULAR MUSIC

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MZÖ 3021 CURRENT AND POPULAR MUSIC COMPULSORY 2 0 0 3

Offered By

Music Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR MÜMTAZ HAKAN SAKAR

Offered to

Music Teacher Education

Course Objective

The purpose of this course, popular culture and society on the basis of conception, the basic concepts of international popular and classical music, world music cultures as well as research of existing, popular and art music, Turkish music education, importance and contribution to interpret.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   They related to national and international popular music will have the intellectual knowledge.
2   They understand music as an the cultural phenomenon outside aesthetic phenomenon.
3   They make music and community analysis.
4   They evaluate popular music in the context of each time period and the purposes of consumption.
5   They establish the relationship popular music and music education.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Definitions and concepts related to culture and mass culture.
2 Concepts of mass culture and the Frankfurt School.
3 The Frankfurt School and art (Pessimistic approach)
4 Birmingham School, Popular Culture and Cultural Studies.
5 Popular Culture and Music in the Perspective of Liberation and democratization (positivist approach)
6 Popular Culture Texts and Consumer Readings
7 Popular Music Text Analysis
8 Midterm Exam
9 Sub-cultures and concepts of Scene
10 Meaning and Interpretation in Popular music
11 Meaning and Interpretation in Popular music
12 Popular music Authenticity
13 Popular Music and Gender
14 Popular Music and the State
15 Final Exam.

Recomended or Required Reading

Popüler Müziği Anlamak , Müzik Üzerine Düşünmek Ayhan Erol, Popüler Kültürü Anlamak John Fiske, Interpreting Popular Music David Brackett, Popüler Kültürler: Rock ve Sporda Haz Politikası David Rowe.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, show-making.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FINS FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 +FINS * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

hakan.sakar@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for final exam 3 3 9
Preparing assignments 1 3 3
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13
Preparation for midterm exam 3 3 9
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 64

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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