Unit of Study MUSC3010 Oceans of Sound (2025)

Unit description

Provides students with a range of historical, cross-cultural and indigenous perspectives relating to global music cultures and related industries. This unit examines the roles of music within different societies and promotes an understanding of the dynamics of global musical cultures through the development of research frameworks for cross-cultural musical comparisons.

Unit content

Module 1: Defining authenticity in contemporary representations of ancient aural music traditions.

Module 2: The evolution of the Western Art music tradition.

Module 3: The globalisation and deconstruction of the Western Art music tradition in the post-classical period.

Module 4: Deterritorialisation of twentieth-century global music styles.

Module 5: Defining ‘world music’.

Module 6: Music in the electronic/digital/internet age.