Popular Music & Communication

Catalog description

Popular Music and Communication The goal of this course is to increase the understanding of popular music as discursive, meaning-making, and symbolic behavior. This course engages theory and research in popular music studies, and will help you apply this knowledge in understanding popular music as meaning-making cultural practice. It will improve understanding of communication beyond transmission views of (mass) communication and engage ritual/symbolic and critical/ cultural perspectives. Thus, the course will also focus on social, societal, cultural, structural and historical dimensions of popular music, and also, on interdisciplinary research in popular music studies in addition to communication scholarship.