DCMS://MUS102_Passion, Rebellion and Identity in Popular Music/
Contact: Dr Denis Crowdy
Email: denis.crowdy@humn.mq.edu.au
Room: W6A 608
Phone: 9850-6787
Credit points: 3
Offered: D2 Day; Offered in second half-year
Prerequisites: None
This unit will look at the social and cultural connections between various articulations of popular passions and/or socio-political rebelliousness and the style, identity and marketing of popular music.
The unit will include topics such as Dance music and Rave culture; the advent of Rock and Roll; Reggae and Rastafarianism in Jamaica; 1960s Hippy Counter-Culture; 1970s Punk Rock; and Rap and Hip Hop in the 1980s and 1990s.