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. 

Delivery of Lectures and Tutorials

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.

Tutorials are designed to focus on the assessment tasks for the unit - particularly the final Creative Work for the unit. In addition, specific tutorials will provide details for the Literature Review and the Essay assignments. Nonetheless, many of the tutorials will be of a practical nature in which students will be introduced to musical traditions and sounds from around the world.

Yes - Tutorials begin in Week 1!

Feedback

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.

Talking and Writing about Music in a Global Context: Weeks 1 - 4

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?

Paradigms of Commodification - Selling Music around the Globe: Weeks 5 - 8

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

Music Theory and Sounds in a Global Context: Weeks 11 - 13

Week 11 - Latin Lines

Week 12 - Indonesian Music

Week 13 - Music in South Asia

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.