New course next semester (Popular Music on Screen)

I hope you'll allow me to indulge in a plug for a new stage three course I'm teaching next semester that deals with music on screen. Some of you might be interested in it. Below is a working description. The course is provisionally timetabled for Wednesday 2-4 pm (I think) plus tutorial. The content is far from set in stone and the texts listed below are just suggestions at this stage. I'd be happy to receive any suggestions for films, videos, quicktime movies, television programmes that we should cover in some way. Please send any comments to n.zuberi@auckland.ac.nz

I hope to see you next semester.


FTVMS 323 Popular Music On Screen

Examines music in film, television, video, the www and other audiovisual media spaces. Considers the relationship between sound and vision in such forms as the musical, documentary, narrative feature film, concert film, music video and television commercial. Looks at the visual cultures of jazz, pop, rock, R & B, hip-hop, electronica and other music styles. Texts include 9 Songs, 42nd Street, A Hard Day’s Night, American Graffiti, American Psycho, Bandwagon, Black Orpheus, Buena Vista Social Club, Come To Daddy, Don’t Look Back, Flashdance, Gimme Shelter, Girl Power, Head-On, MTV, Man With A Movie Camera, Modulations, Monterey Pop, Morvern Callar, Punk: Attitude, Saturday Night Fever, School of Rock, The Jazz Singer, Top of the Pops, Wattstax, Woodstock, Wild Style and many others. Students discuss weekly reading, complete a research proposal and essay on a topic of their choice, and take an exam.