Module Details
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Title JAZZ
Code MUSI341
Coordinator Prof CJ Tackley
Music
Catherine.Tackley@liverpool.ac.uk
Year CATS Level Semester CATS Value
Session 2018-19 Level 6 FHEQ First Semester 15

Aims
  • to broaden and deepen students’ understanding of jazz
  • to develop the ability to question familiar assumptions about the genre and its history

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this module students should be able:

·      To identify and analyse key stylistic and textual elements relating to a range of contemporary popular music genres.

 

  • To consider the factors that convert texts to symbolic goods in pursuit of audiences and market success

· To demonstrate understanding of key concepts, issues, debates and relating to the study of contemporary popular music

· To demonstrate a developed understanding of the factors that are active in generic change within popular music.

Syllabus
1 
This module will cover the following topics:
  • Overview – beginnings to bebop, and some key themes
  • Overview – bebop and beyond, and some key themes
  • The Original Dixieland Jazz Band: race, recording and globalisation
  • Louis Armstrong, the jazz soloist
  • Duke Ellington, the jazz orchestra
  • Swing swing swing – Benny Goodman’s Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert
  • The dance bands – jazz as popular music
  • Dancing and listening: swing to bebop in context
  • Miles Davies and John Coltrane: Kind of Blue and A Love Supreme
  • ‘We Insist!’ – jazz, nationalism and politics
  • Listening for gender in jazz
  • Is Jazz Dead?

Teaching and Learning Strategies

Lecture -

Lectures discuss key themes

Seminar -

Seminar provided an opportunity to discuss key themes

Teaching Schedule
  Lectures Seminars Tutorials Lab Practicals Fieldwork Placement Other TOTAL
Study Hours 24

 12

         36
Timetable (if known) Lectures discuss key themes
  		Seminar provided an opportunity to discuss key themes
  		         
Private Study 114
TOTAL HOURS 150

Assessment
EXAM Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
             
CONTINUOUS Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
Coursework  20 min  Semester 1  60  Yes  Standard UoL penalty applies  Presentation 
Coursework  3,000 words  Semester 1  40  Yes  Standard UoL penalty applies  Essay Notes (applying to all assessments) Essay of 3000 words  

Recommended Texts
Reading lists are managed at readinglists.liverpool.ac.uk. Click here to access the reading lists for this module.
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