Media and Popular Music - JKB245

• Anglický název: Media and Popular Music
• Český název: Média a populární hudba
• Zajišťuje: Katedra mediálních studií (23-KMS)
• Fakulta: Fakulta sociálních věd
• Platnost: od 2024
• Semestr: zimní
• E-Kredity: 5
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: zimní s.:kombinovaná
• Rozsah, examinace: zimní s.:2/0, Zk [HT]
• Počet míst: 80 / neurčen (52)
• Minimální obsazenost: 10
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: vyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán; povolen pro zápis po webu; při zápisu přednost, je-li ve stud. plánu
• Garant: Mgr. Miloš Hroch, Ph.D.
• Vyučující: Mgr. Miloš Hroch, Ph.D.
• Třída: Courses for incoming students

Anotace

The Media and Popular Music course aims to introduce selected chapters from popular music's history (and theory) and introduce critical concepts for studying pop from the perspective relevant to media studies.

Poslední úprava: Hroch Miloš, Mgr., Ph.D. (16.09.2024)

Podmínky zakončení předmětu

Participation in discussions (20%), an annotated playlist (using Spotify or https://www.buymusic.club/or Last FM) on a topic of your choice (40%) and a video essay (up to 10 min.) elaborating on some of the topics of the course (40%).

Annotated playlist submission deadline: November 25 2024
Deadline for submitting the video essay: January 6, 2025

Some inspiration for video essays: 

Polyphonic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2iCiSF7y4c

yokai:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAV7hnCB_ZE

Mic the Snare:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7GWF2tguIs

F.D.Signifier:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFH6CWn7rxw

Poslední úprava: Hroch Miloš, Mgr., Ph.D. (16.09.2024)

Literatura

COHEN, S. (1972) Folk Devils and Moral Panics. London: MacGibbon and Kee.

ERIKSSON, M., FLEISCHER, R., JOHANSSON, A., SNICKARS, P., & VONDERAU, P. (2019). Spotify Teardown: Inside the Black Box of Streaming Music. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

ESHUN, K. (1998) More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction. London: Quartet Books.

FISHER, M. (2009) Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? London: Zero Books.

FISKE, J. (2011) Understanding Popular Culture (2nd edition). Routledge.

FRITH, S. (1998) Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

GEFFEN, S. (2020) Glitter Up The Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary. Austin, TA: University of Texas press.

GILROY, P. (1983) The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.

HALL, S. & JEFFERSON, T. (1993). Resistance through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-war Britain. London: Routledge.

HOPPER, J. (2015) The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic. Chicago, ILL: Featherproof Books.

JENKINS, H. (2013) Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (2nd edition). Routledge.

MARCUS, G. (1975) Images of America in Rock & Roll Music. Boston. MA: E. P. Dutton.

REYNOLDS, S. (2012) Retromania: Popculture’s Addiction to its Own Past. London: Faber & Faber.

REYNOLDS, S. (2005) Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984. London: Faber & Faber.

ROSE, T. (1994) Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press.

SAVAGE, J. (2008) Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture. London: Pimlico.

SAVAGE, J. (2005) England’s Dreaming. London: Faber & Faber.

STANLEY, B. (2022) Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop Music. London: Faber & Faber.

STANLEY, B. (2008) Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop. London: Faber & Faber.

THE SUBCULTURES NETWORK (eds.) (2018). Ripped, Torn and Cut: Pop, Politics and Punk Fanzines from 1976. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

THORNTON, S. (1995) Club Cultures: Music, Media and Subcultural Capital. Cambridge: Polity.

WARK, M. (2020) Sensoria: Thinkers for the Twentieth-first Century. London: Verso Books.

WILLIS, E. (2014) The Essential Ellen Willis. Minneapolis, MIN: University of Minnesota Press.

Poslední úprava: Hroch Miloš, Mgr., Ph.D. (16.09.2024)

Sylabus

Some theories understand popular music as a means of emancipation, where a poster of a famous pop star hanging in a kid's room or a song in headphones can give an individual listener the agency she/he/they were lacking. Other theories see the pleasure and enjoyment that popular music arouses in listeners as only irrational actions that make the ability of critical thinking impossible. The clash of these two views accompanies popular music from the mid-fifties of the last century to the present, and discussions about the value of pop are tied to discussions about the effects of the media, the role of active audiences or media technologies.

The course Media and Popular Music will take place in the form of lectures and aims - based on relevant literature, concrete examples or music videos - to present selected chapters from the history (and theory) of popular music to students, to introduce them to the basic theoretical concepts for the study of pop and at the same time to connect the discussed material with most-pressing topics of the current moment. At the same time, the subject places particular emphasis on the media revolutions in the 20th century, which shaped popular music. The course will introduce pop as an incubator of new ideas and a mirror of social problems.

The semester starts on October 10, so the class on October 3 is CANCELLED. The course will consist of nine lectures, while the remaining teaching slot (December 19) allows students to work individually on video essays (or they can use the time for individual consultations with the teacher of this course).

1. Introduction and theoretical background (October 10)

2. The birth of pop and the teenager (October 17)

3. The Elvis myth (October 24)

4. Rock criticism - music journalism and its changes (October 31)

5. Afrofuturism and the music of the black Atlantic (November 7)

6. Folk devils - how pop broke gender binaries (November 14)

7. Fandom - from the Beatles to punk to Soundcloud (November 21)

8. Platformization of music and Spotify (November 28)

9. Retromania - about the pop's addiction to its past (December 5)

10. Environmental pop - how is the climate crisis reflected in charts? (December 12)

11. Individual work on video essays / consultations (December 19)

Poslední úprava: Hroch Miloš, Mgr., Ph.D. (16.09.2024)