Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Lecturer and Convenor
Andrew Alter
Contact via email
10HA 169
By appointment
Lecturer
Denis Crowdy
Contact via email
10HA 191
By appointment
Lecturer
Sarah Keith
Contact via email
10HA 165G
By appointment
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Credit points |
Credit points
10
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
Approaching the study of music through the broad topics of traditions, instruments, industries and technologies, this unit situates and explores music in a global context. Students investigate how musicians create, adapt and perform music in various cultural, historical and global contexts, including in Western classical and diverse modern traditions and forms. The unit will also have an emphasis on the diversity of such musical practices and traditions in various contexts. A range of themes will be covered, including ideas of improvisation/composition, instrument structure/symbolism, the popularization of traditional practices, classical/folk/popular traditions, and the music of first nation peoples. |
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Written components to each of the assignments should be submitted through the Turnitin portal for each assignment. For the Literature Review and the Essay, this means the complete assignment is submitted this way. There is a short descriptive component to the Creative Work Assignment which should also be submitted via Turnitin. Other aspects of the Creative Work Assignment may take different forms and submission/performance details will be discussed in-class.
The Faculty of Arts Policy regarding the late submission of work will be applied for all submissions in this unit. Even though there are no "time sensitive tasks" in this unit (see below), the complete faculty policy is as follows:
Late Assessment Submission Penalty
Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark) will be applied each day a written assessment is not submitted, up until the 7th day (including weekends). After the 7th day, a mark of ‘0’ (zero) will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. Submission time for all written assessments is set at 11.55pm. A 1-hour grace period is provided to students who experience a technical issue.
This late penalty will apply to non-timed sensitive assessment (incl essays, reports, posters, portfolios, journals, recordings etc). Late submission of time sensitive tasks (such as tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, scheduled practical assessments/labs etc) will only be addressed by the unit convenor in a Special Consideration application. Special Consideration outcomes may result in a new question or topic.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Literature Review | 25% | No | 23:55 on 26/08/22 |
Essay | 40% | No | 23:55 on 21/10/22 |
Creative Work | 35% | No | 23:55 on 06/11/22 |
Assessment Type 1: Literature review
Indicative Time on Task 2: 25 hours
Due: 23:55 on 26/08/22
Weighting: 25%
Students will prepare and submit a survey of relevant scholarly literature. Refer to iLearn for further information.
Assessment Type 1: Essay
Indicative Time on Task 2: 35 hours
Due: 23:55 on 21/10/22
Weighting: 40%
Students will submit a short essay in response to a set question. The essay question will be provided on iLearn. Refer to iLearn for further information.
Assessment Type 1: Creative work
Indicative Time on Task 2: 34 hours
Due: 23:55 on 06/11/22
Weighting: 35%
Students will create and submit an original creative/musical work. Details and project examples will be provided on iLearn. Refer to iLearn for further information.
1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:
2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation
In most cases, the lecture for this unit will be delivered face-to-face in T1 lecture theatre at 10 Hadenfeld Avenue. Lecture and tutorial times may be found on the central timetable system. There will be some occasions when guest lectures have to be delivered in an online pre-recorded format. In such cases, students will be reminded of the online format through the iLearn announcement system. For this reason students MUST organise to receive the unit iLearn announcements in a consistent way.
There are three face-to-face tutorials and one online tutorial scheduled for each week. As is normal, there is a cap on student numbers for each tutorial. Students should sign up for the appropriate tutorial through e-student. Because of the nature of online delivery, learning strategies and procedures for the online tutorial will be slightly different to the in-class face-to-face tutorials. Naturally, learning topics, readings, assessment tasks and learning outcomes will remain the same for all students.
Feedback in this unit is available in multiple forms: informal feedback in lectures and tutorials; face-to-face consultations; formal general comment, rubric, and/or in-text comments attached to assignments marked in Turnitin.
Week 1 - Musical Instruments and Global Exchange
Week 2 - Introduction: Ways of Thinking and Talking about Music in a Global Context
Week 3 - Organology in a Global Context: The Guitar as an Example
Week 4 - Traditions and Genres: Classical, Folk and Indigenous?
Week 5 - Festivals of Music in Australia and around the Globe
Week 6 - New Economies of Distribution and New Paradigms
Week 7 - Understanding the New Global Streaming Context
Mid-Term Break 10 - 25 September
Week 8 - 'World Music' and Commodification in the 'Old World' Paradigm
Week 9 - India and the Bollywood Paradigm
Week 10 - The World of K-Pop
Week 11 - Latin Lines
Week 12 - Indonesian Music
Week 13 - Music in South Asia
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Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark) will be applied each day a written assessment is not submitted, up until the 7th day (including weekends). After the 7th day, a mark of ‘0’ (zero) will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. Submission time for all written assessments is set at 11.55pm. A 1-hour grace period is provided to students who experience a technical issue.
This late penalty will apply to non-timed sensitive assessment (incl essays, reports, posters, portfolios, journals, recordings etc). Late submission of time sensitive tasks (such as tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, scheduled practical assessments/labs etc) will only be addressed by the unit convenor in a Special Consideration application. Special Consideration outcomes may result in a new question or topic.
In 2022, the unit is more highly focused on the way music is promoted and spread around the world. Consequently, a major segment of the unit deals with commodification paradigms around the globe. These topics appear in Weeks 5 - 9 and lead to the Essay which is due in Week 11.
Unit information based on version 2022.02 of the Handbook