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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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Thematic areas: General theory, terminology (non-artificial music, modern popular music, rock, cyclical dynamics of stylistic changes) Theoretical reflection of rock music (T. W. Adorno, Birmingham School, New Musicology, Critical Musicology, domestic and global state of research in the field of rock music, "a dispute about the nature of rock music") History and musical analysis (key styles, personalities and works of foreign and domestic rock) Political contexts of rock (myth of rock authenticity: the socio-political involvement as a prerequisite of aesthetic quality, rockism, censorship, propaganda, case studies: folk rock, punk rock, art rock, metal, U2, Sinéad O'Connor, rock in the period of the so-called normalization, Live Aid, Norwegian black metal scene in the nineties) Aesthetic aspects of rock (authenticity, artistic autonomy, repetition, recycling) Sociological aspects of rock (cultural / subcultural capital, subculture, scene, structural homology, case studies: Teddy Boys, Rockers, Mods, Skinheads, Birmingham metal scene, and more) Economic aspects of rock (Majors vs. Indies, commercialization of rock). Gender aspects of rock (authenticity, case study: heavy metal)
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture
- Attendace
- 26 hours per semester
- Homework for Teaching
- 100 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The main goal of the course is to understand the key aspects of the phenomenon of rock music. Through selected chapters and case studies students will be acquainted not only with historical, aesthetic, and general as well as music-theoretical problems of rock music, but they will be also familiarised with wider socio-cultural meanings and functions of rock. During the course students will discover basic style-genre areas of rock (rock and roll, the Mersey sound, hard rock, art rock, jazz, rock, heavy metal, etc.) and their main representatives, as well as political, jural, criminological, sociological, economic, psychological, religious and other contexts of the key segment of the musical culture of last fifty years.
Student will gain knowledge about the complex phenomenon of rock music. Student will understand the specifics of each rock style, he will be able to define these styles, to compare them and to put them into musical context. Through reflection on various issues of specific style-genre types of popular music student inspects deeper patterns of functioning of human society and culture.
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Prerequisites
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Student should be generally acquainted with the history of music, aesthetic and sociological categories.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written exam
Attendance, thorough knowledge of literature and the issues discussed in the course of the lectures, at least 70% in the final exam test
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Recommended literature
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BLÜML, Jan. (2017). Progresivní rock: světová a československá scéna ve vybraných reflexích. Praha.
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COVACH, John. What's That Sound?: An Introduction to Rock and Its History . W. W. Norton & Company.
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