PdF:HV061 Modern Popular Music - Course Information
HV061 Modern Popular Music
Faculty of EducationAutumn 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- doc. PhDr. Marek Sedláček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Marek Sedláček, Ph.D.
Department of Music – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: doc. PhDr. Marek Sedláček, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Music – Faculty of Education - Timetable of Seminar Groups
- HV061/01: Tue 14:00–15:50 učebna 20, M. Sedláček
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- At the end of the course students should be able to orientate in the world of pop-music. The subject is focused on evolution of pop-music from the end of 19th century to present time. The intent is characteristics of more significant music styles and genres.
- Learning outcomes
- The student will understand the developmental context of modern popular music.
The student gains a basic overview of the most modern musical styles and genres.
The student can characterize the most important modern music styles and genres. - Syllabus
- Modern popular music - definition, history of popular music:
- Beginnings of swing in USA, Europe;
- Beginnings of rock music, hard rock, underground subculture in USA;
- Disco-pop music, reggae, funk, punk rock;
- Synthesis of new styles, gothic rock, dance trends, romanticism of the British Isles, pop jazz, ethnic music;
- Minimal music, film music and video clips;
- General problematics of mass culture;
- The problematics of posmodernism
- Music festivals with political impact, house music, rap music, films, MTV - new music medium, synthesis of popular music, post-modernism, techno wave, post-punk music;
- Literature
- ECO, Umberto. Skeptikové a těšitelé. Translated by Zdeněk Frýbort. 1. vyd. Praha: Svoboda, 417 s. ISBN 30-205-0472-9. info
- STARR, Larry and Christopher Alan WATERMAN. American popular music : from minstrelsy to MP3. 2nd pbl. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, xii, 515. ISBN 9780195300536. info
- Out of sightthe rise of African American popular music, 1889-1895. Edited by Lynn Abbott - Doug Seroff. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2002, xvii, 510. ISBN 1578064996. info
- MCQUAIL, Denis. Úvod do teorie masové komunikace. Translated by Jan Jirák - Marcel Kabát. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 1999, 447 s. ISBN 80-7178-200-9. info
- KULKA, Tomáš. Umění a kýč. Praha: Torst, 1994, 183 s. ISBN 80-85639-17-3. info
- LYOTARD, Jean François. O postmodernismu :postmoderno vysvětlované dětem : postmoderní situace. Translated by Jiří Pechar. Vyd. 1. Praha: Filosofia, 1993, 206 s. ISBN 80-7007-047-1. info
- DORŮŽKA, Petr. Hudba na pomezí. Praha: Panton, 1991. info
- MATZNER, Antonín, Ivan POLEDŇÁK and Igor WASSERBERGER. Encyklopedie jazzu a moderní populární hudby. 1. vyd. Praha: Supraphon, 1990, 649 s., [4. ISBN 80-7058-210-3. info
- MATZNER, Antonín, Ivan POLEDŇÁK and Igor WASSERBERGER. Encyklopedie jazzu a moderní populární hudby. 1. vyd. Praha: Editio Supraphon, 1987, 537 s. URL info
- DORŮŽKA, Lubomír. Panoráma populární hudby 1918-1978, aneb, Nevšední písničkáři všedních dní. [Praha]: Mladá fronta, 1987. info
- MATZNER, Antonín, Ivan POLEDŇÁK and Igor WASSERBERGER. Encyklopedie jazzu a moderní populární hudby. 1. vyd. Praha: Editio Supraphon, 1986, 558 s. URL info
- MATZNER, Antonín, Ivan POLEDŇÁK and Igor WASSERBERGER. Encyklopedie jazzu a moderní populární hudby. 2., dopl. vyd. Praha: Supraphon, 1983, 415 s. URL info
- Teaching methods
- Seminar. Theoretical preparation, music analysis, class discussion.
- Assessment methods
- Credit on the basis of a paper (30 min. presentation) on the negotiated topic (characteristics of typical musical means of the selected musical style or genre of the traditional/modern popular music).
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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