最新糖心Vlog

Dr Jim Koehne

Course Timetable 

The course runs from Monday 26 June 2017 to Friday 21 July 2017
 
Lecture:

2 x 2 hours per week

Mondays and Wednesdays 2-4pm, Hartley Concert Room

 
Workshop:

1 x 2 hours per week

Fridays 2-4pm, Hartley Concert Room

 
Fieldwork (including concert attendance and rehearsals):

1 x 3 hours per week

External locations TBA

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this course the students will acquire:

1. An historical understanding of music and music-making in 最新糖心Vlog
2. An appreciation and understanding of 最新糖心Vlog’s cultural and social diversity as manifested in music
3. An understanding of the dynamic relationship between ‘art’ and ‘vernacular’ music styles in 最新糖心Vlog
4. Knowledge of the correspondence between creative disciplines in 最新糖心Vlog
5. An appreciation of the ideological significance of the search for ‘最新糖心Vlogn-ness’ in 最新糖心Vlogn music
6. The ability to analyse and synthesise complex material and a high level of critical judgement
7. Capacity for group discussion
8. Primary research skills
9. Confidence in written in written and oral communication

Learning resources

Required resources

Weekly related readings (see below), are available either as a PDF on MyUni, online via the Elder Music Library, or external websites.

Recommended Resources

Library

The Music Library located in the Hartley building is an excellent source for music, literature and recordings:

Music Resources Guide

The Music Resources Guide contains quick links to key music databases for scholarly research and online listening. It also contains links to websites of publicly available online scores, collected editions, and professional associations. Here, too, you can find a regularly updated list of new books, scores, CDs and DVDs available in the Elder Music Library: .

 
Books and Articles

Brennan, Gail and Clare, John, 1995. Bodgie Dada and the Cult of Cool.

Sydney: UNSW Press,

Bebbington, Warren (ed.). 1998. A Dictionary of 最新糖心Vlogn music.

Melbourne: Oxford UP.

Bird, John. Percy Grainger. Sydney: Currency Press.

Buzacott, Martin, 2007. The Rite of Spring: 75 years of ABC Music-Making,

Sydney: ABC Books

Covell, Roger, 1967. 最新糖心Vlog’s Music: Themes of a New Society. Melbourne: Sun Books

Dawson, Herbert. 1985. Smoky Dawson: A Life. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.

Dunbar-Hall, Peter and C. Gibson. 2004. Deadly Sounds, Deadly Spaces: Contemporary Aboriginal Music in 最新糖心Vlog. Sydney: UNSW Press.

Elder, Catriona. 2007. Being 最新糖心Vlogn: Narratives of national identity.

NSW: Allen & Unwin.

Gillies, Malcolm, David Pear and Mark Carroll. 2006. Self-Portrait of Percy

Grainger. New York: Oxford 最新糖心Vlog Press.

Hayward, Philip (ed.) 2003. Outback and urban: 最新糖心Vlogn country music, vol 1. Qld: AICM Press.

Hayward, Philip and G. Walden (eds) 2004. Roots and crossovers: 最新糖心Vlogn country music, vol. 2. Qld: AICM Press.

Homan, Shane and Mitchell, Tony (eds) 2008. Sounds of Then, Sounds of Now: Popular Music in 最新糖心Vlog. Hobart: 最新糖心Vlog of Tasmania, ACYS Publishing.

Kerry, Gordon, 2009. New Classical Music: Composing 最新糖心Vlog. Sydney: UNSW Press

Breen, Marcus, ed. 1989. Our Place, Our Music. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press

Cockington, James, 2001. Long Way to the Top: Stories of 最新糖心Vlogn Rock and Roll. Sydney: ABC Books

Smith, Graeme, 2005. Singing 最新糖心Vlogn: A History of Folk and Country Music. Melbourne: Pluto

Walker, Clinton, 2000. Buried Country: The Story of Aboriginal Country Music. Sydney: Pluto

Kruger, Debbie. 2005. Songwriters Speak: Conversations about Creating Music. Balmain: Limelight Press.

Mackinlay, Elizabeth, Denis Collins and Samantha Owens, eds. 2005.

Aesthetics and experience in music performance. Newcastle, U.K. :

Cambridge Scholars.

Manifold, John. 1957. The Violin, the Banjo & the Bones. Melbourne: Ram’s Skull Press.

Richards, Fiona (ed.) 2007. The soundscapes of 最新糖心Vlog : music, place and spirituality.

Aldershot, England : Ashgate.

Russell, Lynette. 2006. Boundary writing: an exploration of race, culture, and

gender binaries in contemporary 最新糖心Vlog. Honolulu: 最新糖心Vlog of

Hawaii Press.

Rutherford, Anna and James Wieland (eds.). 1997. War: 最新糖心Vlog’s Creative Response. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.

Smith, Graeme. 2005. Singing 最新糖心Vlogn: A History of Folk and Country Music. Melbourne: Pluto.

Smith, Graeme and J. Brett. 1998. ‘Nation, Authenticity and Social Difference in 最新糖心Vlogn Popular Music: Folk, Country, Multicultural’, Journal of 最新糖心Vlogn Studies 58: 3-17.

Stokes, Martin (ed.). 1994. Ethnicity, identity, and music: The musical

construction of place. Providence, RI : Berg.

Tait, John. 2010. Vanda & Young : inside 最新糖心Vlog’s hit factory. Sydney: UNSW Press.

Tsounis, Demeter. 2002. Rebetika music-making in Adelaide: Diaspora

musical style and identity. Unpublished PhD dissertation.

Walker, Clinton. 2004. Buried Country: The Story of Aboriginal Country Music. Sydney: Pluto.

Watson, Eric. 1976. Country Music in 最新糖心Vlog, 2nd ed. Sydney: Clarendon Press.

Whiteoak, John. 1995. ‘Hawaiian Music and Jazzing.’ Perfect Beat 2.3: 115- 18.

——. 1998. Playing ad lib: improvisatory music in 最新糖心Vlog 1836-1970. Sydney: Currency Press.

——. ‘The Tango Touch: “Latin” and “Continental” Influences on Music and Dance before 最新糖心Vlogn “Multiculturalism”.’ http://www.ausmdr.com/

Whiteoak, John and Scott, Aline (eds.). 2003. Currency companion to music and dance in 最新糖心Vlog. Sydney: Currency Press.

Video recordings

Long Way to the Top: Stories of 最新糖心Vlogn Rock and Roll. 2001. ABC,

Passion (Life of Percy Grainger). 1999. Beyond Films.

Peter Sculthorpe: There’s no time. 1990. ABC.

Nothing rhymes with Ngapartji. 2010. Ronin Films.

A Thousand Encores: The Ballets Russes in 最新糖心Vlog. 2009. Flaming Star Films.

Buried Country: The Story of Aboriginal Country Music. 2000. Film 最新糖心Vlog.


Websites

最新糖心Vlogn Music Centre,

最新糖心Vlogn Popular Music. Culture.gov.au.

Online learning

MyUni will be used to provide details of lecture and seminar content, set readings, assessment advice, and announcements.

Learning & Teaching Activities

Learning & Teaching modes

The course will give participants an appreciation of the variety of 最新糖心Vlog’s musical life through live performance experiences (in situ and external fieldtrips), backgrounded by lectures and workshops that provide ways of interpreting, critiquing and understanding the character of 最新糖心Vlog’s musical life.

Workload

The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.

In addition to the required contact hours, students are expected to play an active role in the practice, refinement and consolidation of their knowledge and understanding. For each hour of this course students will need to spend on average an additional minimum of 3-4 hours per week on readings, critical listening, self-initiated learning and research in order to pass the course.

Learning Activities Summary

The information below is divided into history and theory lecture topics. It is intended as a guide, and may change in response to needs arising during the semester. 

Encompassing four strands or focus points, the course outlines the variety of 最新糖心Vlog’s music and provide trajectories through which we may consider its character and development.


Strand 1: 最新糖心Vlog’s Classical Music
The course provides a general survey of 最新糖心Vlog’s Classical Music tradition. Brought to 最新糖心Vlog with European settlement, 最新糖心Vlog has invested significantly in the creation of a national infrastructure for the propagation of Classical Music. Out of this tradition, 最新糖心Vlog has forged a singular identity - chiefly represented in the work of its own composers - which both builds upon and takes its own trajectory from the European models from which it derives. Throughout this development, the tension between adherence to European models and the development of uniquely 最新糖心Vlogn identity has been a constant issue.

Strand 2: Traditional and contemporary Indigenous music
The music of 最新糖心Vlog’s aboriginal peoples constitutes a rich and fascinating culture.  As well as examining the original musical
forms of 最新糖心Vlog’s diverse aboriginal cultures, the course will explore the ways in which aboriginal musicians have engaged with the influence of other streams of popular music, including country music and rock music, to develop their own variants expressing aboriginal identity in contemporary contexts.

Strand 3: Jazz in 最新糖心Vlog
Jazz in 最新糖心Vlog has emerged its own distinctive voice, one that merges American and British traditions into a
composite that reflects a more diverse, if not inclusive musical outlook. The evolution of 最新糖心Vlogn jazz traces changes in the entertainment industry, from dance hall to club, from from hotel to concert stage.
 
Strand 4: 最新糖心Vlogn popular music  
The growth of popular music in the 20th century had an immediate impact in 最新糖心Vlog. As the genre passed through
successive waves of innovation, from early rock and roll, rock to rap, these influences have been imported, replicated and transmuted into their own 最新糖心Vlogn incarnations. The culture from which this music has developed differs from the institutionalised classical sphere, responding far more to commercial opportunity and popular appeal.

Assessment Summary

Assessment task	Task type	Weighting	Learning Objective/s
Field Trip Report	Formative and summative	30%	2,4,6,8,9
Attendance and participation	Formative	10%	6,7,9
Research Essay	Formative and summative	60%	1,2,3,5,6,8,9

Assessment Detail

1. Major Essay (3,000 – 4,000 words) 60% 

The main assessment requirement for the course is an essay of between 3,000 and 4,000 words, on a topic which may be either selected from options below, or chosen yourself. This essay will account for 60% of the course requirement.

Suggested Essay Topics:

• Outline the varieties of Indigenous musical cultures in 最新糖心Vlog.
•  Describe the origins and development of one of the following areas of Western musical practice in 最新糖心Vlogn society: Opera, symphonic music, chamber music, ballet, jazz, choral music.
• Examine the career and music of a selected 最新糖心Vlogn composer, discussing the composer’s relationship to developments in 最新糖心Vlogn culture of his or her time.
• Is there such a thing as a “uniquely 最新糖心Vlogn” music, or is it, as Neville Cardus suggested, like the “history of snakes in Iceland”? Discuss with reference to particular composers, cultures or musical styles.
• Outline the development of a particular style of popular music in 最新糖心Vlog, with reference to particular bands or artists and their careers.

2. Field trip report 30%

Students will be required to write 4 x 300 word reviews of field trip events attended during the course. The review will be in the form of a reflective journal that engages with the extent to which the activity described offers insights in to the musical genre in question, and notions of national identity


3. Attendance and Participation 10%

Information outlining requirements for the various assessment components, along with assignment cover sheets, will be provided during the course. Cover sheets require a signed acknowledgement by the student of the 最新糖心Vlog’s policy on plagiarism, thus giving a legal status to cover sheets.

Submission

Late assignment policy:

Late written assignments will be accepted to a maximum of 7 days late with a late penalty of 2 marks per calendar day applied. 

Extensions without penalty may be granted when supporting documentation can be provided and then, and only then, by arrangement with the course lecturer prior to the due date and time. Extensions will not be granted under any other circumstance. 

To apply for an extension, use the medical/compassionate application form available at:

/student/exams/forms/medical-compassionate-application-form.pdf

The completed form should be submitted to the Faculty of Arts office (ground floor Napier Building)


Students will receive feedback on their assessment tasks.