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Unit of Study MUSC3010 - Oceans of Sound (2025)

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    The content and assessment for this unit develops specific academic research methodologies that provide a framework for understanding the factors influencing the historical development of global musical cultures.

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.

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Location Domestic International
Coomera
Term4
Term4
Lismore
Term4
Term4

Learning outcomes

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On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

identify and describe key stylistic features of a variety of musical examples from disparate global musical cultures

research specific theoretical concepts relating to the evolution of contemporary global musical cultures

analyse a range of historical and cross-cultural research perspectives relating to changing nature of global contemporary music practice

construct a research framework for understanding the complex process of transformation occurring within the international music industry.

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