CRITICAL STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY & POPULAR MUSIC

Catalog description

Examines Contemporary and Popular Music, not as a narrow singular approach with a unitary cultural lens, but as a complex phenomenon with vast stylistic diversity, practices, participants and methodologies. Explores plurality of sonic approaches, interdisciplinary relations, and social, racial, and gender histories and cultural practices. Introduces critical approaches surrounding construction, embodied listening, sensuality and reception, dissemination perception, fandom, popular aesthetics and taste of contemporary and popular musical forms.