Projects in Musical Cultures - AIM2421

Assessment 1: Written plan

Initial plan and resource list for the Research Project submitted for tutor feedback and approval.

Project proposal

Assessment 1: Portfolio

Structured, analytical, reflective, and/or theoretical tasks linked to classroom content, and designed to consolidate teaching and build confidence for independent further study.

Portfolio of research-based tasks

Assessment 2: Project Work

A critically, theoretically and/or analytically-focused research project relating to the content of the topic, devised by the student with tutor guidance and support. The project may take the form of a written essay, podcast, video essay, illustrated seminar presentation, or any other appropriate format as agreed.

Research project

Projects in Musical Cultures (Extended)

AIM2422 - Projects in Musical Cultures (Extended)

Advanced Projects in Musical Cultures (Extended)

AHM3422 - Advanced Projects in Musical Cultures (Extended)

Advanced Projects in Musical Cultures

AHM3421 - Advanced Projects in Musical Cultures

As an increasingly confident and independent musical researcher and creative practitioner, you will undertake an in-depth exploration of a particular area of music by choosing one specialist topic from a range on offer. Using research to underpin and inspire both scholarly and artistic activity, you will engage with current debates within musicology, discover new repertoire and methodologies, and investigate music as a cultural text.

School of Arts and Humanities

Indicative references provided for validation. My Reading will contain general musicology resources including those below. Option-specific resources will also be provided through My Reading.
Beard, D., &amp; Gloag, K. (2016) Musicology: The Key Concepts. Routledge.
Cheng, W. (2016). Just Vibrations: The Purpose Of Sounding Good. University Of Michigan Press.
Cook, N., &amp; Everist, M. (1999). Rethinking Music. Oxford University Press.
Fabian, D. (2017). A Musicology Of Performance.
Gollin, E., &amp; Rehding, A. (2011). The Oxford Handbook Of Neo-Riemannian Music Theories. Oxford University Press.
Greene, L., &amp; Kulezic-Wilson, D. (2016). The Palgrave Handbook of Sound Design and Music in Screen Media: Integrated Soundtracks. Palgrave.
Hooper, G. (2016). The Discourse Of Musicology. Routledge.
Moore, A. F. (2016). Song Means: Analysing And Interpreting Recorded Popular Song. Routledge.
Morrison, M. D. (2019). Race, Blacksound, and the (Re)making of Musicological Discourse. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 72(3), 781-823. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2019.72.3.781">https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2019.72.3.781</a>.
Peraino, J. (2006). Listening to the Sirens: Musical Technologies of Queer Identity from Homer to Hedwig. University of California Press.
Scott, D. B. (2016). (Ed.) The Ashgate Research Companion To Popular Musicology. Ashgate.
Scotto, C., Smith, K. M., &amp; Brackett, J. L. (2019). The Routledge Companion To Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches. Routledge.
Williams, A. (2001). Constructing Musicology. Ashgate.
Zagorski-Thomas, S. (2014). The Musicology Of Record Production. Cambridge University Press.

Music

AIM2421 - Projects in Musical Cultures

Projects in Musical Cultures

Demonstrate knowledge of a range of key issues, repertoires, and personnel relevant to the study of music and musical cultures in a given topic or area. 

Understand a variety of techniques, methodologies, and investigative approaches suitable for musical research in a given topic or area, including practice research.

Analyse musical or music-related texts using appropriate methodologies.

Reflect upon and evaluate arguments, ideas, and critical debates about music and musical cultures in a given topic or area.

Demonstrate an understanding of the ways in which musicological, creative, and cultural practices are connected in contemporary research culture.

Work largely independently to plan, instigate, and present an effective, organised, and appropriately-evidenced research project (PDP).