Rock Music: From Roots to Retro

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2016:

170 hours

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

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This subject explores a range of rock music, from its roots in American music styles of the mid-twentieth century to the emergence of rock and proliferation of hybrid genres in the 1960s and 1970s. It will also examine subsequent developments like punk, heavy metal and grunge, and more recent recasting of rock idioms. The aesthetic foundations of rock music and culture will be analysed, as well as the music's creation, performance and modes of consumption.

On completion of this subject, students should be able to:

• Recognise (from audio and audio-visual sources) and contextualise different styles of rock music.
• Discuss critically the creation and consumption of rock music in the twentieth century.
• Undertake scholarly work using bibliographic tools.

• Four online quizzes to be held throughout the semester, Weeks 2, 4, 6 and 8 (40%)
• 1500 word essay, due in Week 10 (40%)
• 40 minute Listening Test, in the Week 12 lecture (20%)

A reading pack will be available for purchase from the Melbourne University Bookshop before the start of semester.

This subject potentially can be taken as a breadth subject component for the following courses:

• Bachelor of Arts
• Bachelor of Biomedicine
• Bachelor of Environments
• Bachelor of Science

You should visit learn more about breadth subjects and read the breadth requirements for your degree, and should discuss your choice with your student adviser, before deciding on your subjects.

On completion of this subject, students should have developed:

• A capacity for independent critical thought.
• An openess to new ideas.
• Knowledge, skills and practices which provide a basis for independent critical inquiry and research-based writing.