KMB222 Music and Culture
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| Unit code: | KMB222 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | Completion of 48 credit points of study |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Assumed basic knowledge of music fundamentals. |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,118 |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,104 |
| International unit fee | $4,320 |
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | KMB222 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | Completion of 48 credit points of study |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Assumed basic knowledge of music fundamentals. |
| Coordinator: | Gavin Carfoot | gavin.carfoot@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit explores the way that music operates as a form of social, cultural and political communication. Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches, you will investigate and discuss the various contexts in which music circulates and is made meaningful. The unit explores traditional and contemporary music from a range of cultural contexts (including Australian First Peoples music and culture), providing opportunities to listen critically to music, while using key concepts from sociology, musicology, and cultural studies to discuss identity, culture, and the production and consumption of music. This unit is offered in the developmental stage of your course, and lays the groundwork for understanding why music exists in our lives and how it is placed in the cultural spectrum of music making and the perceived effects of globalisation and localism on music.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate an awareness of some of the major global music cultures.
- Analyse and be aware of the cultural, political, economic, technological and social contexts in which music occurs.
- Demonstrate a significant grasp of Western and non-Western music fundamentals.
- Employ and integrate varying theories, histories and approaches to construct a substantial critical argument relevant to music and culture.
Content
This unit is focused on understanding how music functions in various social and cultural contexts, drawing on frameworks from cultural studies, critical theory, and other relevant scholarly disciplines. The unit features a foregrounding of First Peoples music and culture, along with an interrogation of the discourses that define Western music today. This unit explores content such as:
- the study of specific musical cultures in relation to regions of the world, predominantly in a contemporary and globalised context
- theories of culture and subculture
- social, cultural and political factors that impact music-making and reception.
Learning Approaches
This unit offers interdisciplinary learning opportunities for any student with an interest in music and its place in the world. Students engage with online content that introduces scholarly approaches to non-Western and Western music. Students are supported by teaching staff through online discussions that explore the content. Students have opportunities to bring their own musical and creative interests into the learning and assessment activities. All learning activities are undertaken online, and can be completed at the student's own pace, while meeting key feedback and assessment milestones for the unit.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- comments provided through formative assessment activities
- feedback from teaching staff and peers as you investigate and discuss issues, methods and approaches raised throughout the unit
- comments on summative assessment included on criteria sheets with your grade.
Assessment
Overview
The first assessment item is a Wiki page that is completed online and in groups, responding to and applying the lecture content to a specific aspect of music and culture. The second assessment item is a critical essay that is completed individually, focusing on an aspect of music in its cultural, political and social contexts.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Wiki
A wiki page that is created in groups, responding to and applying the lecture content to a specific area of music and culture.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Essay
A scholarly essay that explores an aspect of music in its cultural, political and social contexts.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
All students and staff who access campus buildings and facilities are required to complete the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction. This must be completed online.
Resources
Online readings and listening activities will be supplied through Course Readings and the unit’s Canvas site.
Resource Materials
Other
To enable your full participation in the virtual learning environment, for example, participating in online activities and engaging with online learning materials, you will need access to a reliable computer with an internet connection, webcam, headset and microphone, as well as a learning environment where you are able to fully participate undisturbed when required.
Risk Assessment Statement
For risks associated with using campus buildings or facilities, refer to the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction.
Where substantial computer-based work is required, particularly in the case of fully online students, you are recommended to take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work, and ensure that your workstation is set up for optimal comfort to prevent strain or injury.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.KK34 Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Cite and discuss a broad and coherent knowledge of historical and contemporary cultural contexts for creative practice, including the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges.
Relates to: ULO1 - Identify and demonstrate knowledge of the techniques and concepts underpinning your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO2 - Demonstrate technical proficiency in at least one area of your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO3 - Communicate independent learning clearly and coherently in diverse modes relevant to your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO4 - Discern, critically analyse and synthesise knowledge in complex creative practice settings.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4
KK43 Bachelor of Creative Industries
- Demonstrate broad and coherent theoretical and practical knowledge required for creative enterprise, career development and interdisciplinary collaborations, supported by depth in at least one creative disciplinary area.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2 - Demonstrate technical expertise to support skills and knowledge within the Creative Industries.
Relates to: ULO3 - Communicate effectively in a range of forms across multiple media modes, for sharing and disseminating knowledge, skills and ideas, and collaborative practice and navigation of social networks.
Relates to: ULO4 - Apply and adapt creative disciplinary knowledge and skills with agility in a range of industry, community and intercultural contexts.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Online
| Unit code: | KMB222 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | Completion of 48 credit points of study |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Assumed basic knowledge of music fundamentals. |
Overview
This unit explores the way that music operates as a form of social, cultural and political communication. Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches, you will investigate and discuss the various contexts in which music circulates and is made meaningful. The unit explores traditional and contemporary music from a range of cultural contexts (including Australian First Peoples music and culture), providing opportunities to listen critically to music, while using key concepts from sociology, musicology, and cultural studies to discuss identity, culture, and the production and consumption of music. This unit is offered in the developmental stage of your course, and lays the groundwork for understanding why music exists in our lives and how it is placed in the cultural spectrum of music making and the perceived effects of globalisation and localism on music.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate an awareness of some of the major global music cultures.
- Analyse and be aware of the cultural, political, economic, technological and social contexts in which music occurs.
- Demonstrate a significant grasp of Western and non-Western music fundamentals.
- Employ and integrate varying theories, histories and approaches to construct a substantial critical argument relevant to music and culture.
Content
This unit is focused on understanding how music functions in various social and cultural contexts, drawing on frameworks from cultural studies, critical theory, and other relevant scholarly disciplines. The unit features a foregrounding of First Peoples music and culture, along with an interrogation of the discourses that define Western music today. This unit explores content such as:
- the study of specific musical cultures in relation to regions of the world, predominantly in a contemporary and globalised context
- theories of culture and subculture
- social, cultural and political factors that impact music-making and reception.
Learning Approaches
This unit offers interdisciplinary learning opportunities for any student with an interest in music and its place in the world. Students engage with online content that introduces scholarly approaches to non-Western and Western music. Students are supported by teaching staff through online discussions that explore the content. Students have opportunities to bring their own musical and creative interests into the learning and assessment activities. All learning activities are undertaken online, and can be completed at the student's own pace, while meeting key feedback and assessment milestones for the unit.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- comments provided through formative assessment activities
- feedback from teaching staff and peers as you investigate and discuss issues, methods and approaches raised throughout the unit
- comments on summative assessment included on criteria sheets with your grade.
Assessment
Overview
The first assessment item is a Wiki page that is completed online and in groups, responding to and applying the lecture content to a specific aspect of music and culture. The second assessment item is a critical essay that is completed individually, focusing on an aspect of music in its cultural, political and social contexts.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Wiki
A wiki page that is created in groups, responding to and applying the lecture content to a specific area of music and culture.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Essay
A scholarly essay that explores an aspect of music in its cultural, political and social contexts.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
All students and staff who access campus buildings and facilities are required to complete the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction. This must be completed online.
Resources
Online readings and listening activities will be supplied through Course Readings and the unit’s Canvas site.
Resource Materials
Other
To enable your full participation in the virtual learning environment, for example, participating in online activities and engaging with online learning materials, you will need access to a reliable computer with an internet connection, webcam, headset and microphone, as well as a learning environment where you are able to fully participate undisturbed when required.
Risk Assessment Statement
For risks associated with using campus buildings or facilities, refer to the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction.
Where substantial computer-based work is required, particularly in the case of fully online students, you are recommended to take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work, and ensure that your workstation is set up for optimal comfort to prevent strain or injury.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.KK34 Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Cite and discuss a broad and coherent knowledge of historical and contemporary cultural contexts for creative practice, including the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges.
Relates to: ULO1 - Identify and demonstrate knowledge of the techniques and concepts underpinning your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO2 - Demonstrate technical proficiency in at least one area of your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO3 - Communicate independent learning clearly and coherently in diverse modes relevant to your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO4 - Discern, critically analyse and synthesise knowledge in complex creative practice settings.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4
KK43 Bachelor of Creative Industries
- Demonstrate broad and coherent theoretical and practical knowledge required for creative enterprise, career development and interdisciplinary collaborations, supported by depth in at least one creative disciplinary area.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2 - Demonstrate technical expertise to support skills and knowledge within the Creative Industries.
Relates to: ULO3 - Communicate effectively in a range of forms across multiple media modes, for sharing and disseminating knowledge, skills and ideas, and collaborative practice and navigation of social networks.
Relates to: ULO4 - Apply and adapt creative disciplinary knowledge and skills with agility in a range of industry, community and intercultural contexts.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4