Popular Music
Study Cycle: 1
Lectures: 0
Seminars: 30
Tutorials: 60
ECTS credit: 6
Lecturer(s): doc. dr. Verbuč David, prof. dr. Pompe Gregor
Defining the field of popular music.
Various disciplinary approaches to popular music.
Temporal-stylistic and socially critical outline of popular music in the West and the world, including jazz, rock and electronic dance music.
Relations between popular music and: age, gender, race, ethnicity, ideology and censorship, language, religion, economy, social status, and political movements in various parts of the world.
Popular music and dance.
Musical features and technological innovations.
Creation and life of popular music: music industry, concerts, recordings, festivals etc.
Contextual features of particular genres, including behavioral and dressing patterns and visual artistry.
Popular music in relation to traditional and art musics.
Popular music and musics of the world.
Popular music in Yugoslavia.
Popular music in Slovenia.
Systematic study of selected music-analytical, contextual, historical and other issues, in which the focus can be on individuals, genres, race, gender, censorship etc.
Flory, Andrew, and John Covach. 2006. What's That Sound? An Introduction to Rock and Its History. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
Garofalo, Reebee. 2016. Rockin' Out: Popular Music in the U.S.A. Šesta izdaja. Pearson Education.
Waterman, Christopher Alan. 2003. American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to MP3. Oxford University Press.
Giddins, Gary in Scott DeVeaux. 2010. Jazz. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
Spaskovska, Ljubica. 2011. “Stairway to Hell: The Yugoslav Rock Scene and Youth during the Crisis decade of 1981-1991.” East Central Europe 38: 1-16. https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/18682853/Spaskovska_Sta…
Brvar, Veronika, ur. 2015. Zgodovina slovenske zabavne glasbe 1900-2000, Tematska številka revije Glasna. COBISS.SI-ID - 1096259166
Frantar, Vladimir. 2012. Enkrat še zapoj: 50 let Slovenske popevke. COBISS.SI-ID - 262127360
Ramet , Sabrina P. 1994 . “Shake, Rattle, and Self-Management: Making the Scene in Yugoslavia.” V Rocking the State: Rock Music and Politics in Eastern Europe and Russia , uredila Sabrina Petra Ramet, 103–132 . Oxford : Westview Press.
Stanković, Peter. 2013. “Kaj pa pop?: Zgodovina in zgodovine slovenske popularne glasbe.” Družboslovne razprave 29(72): 65-84. https://www.dlib.si/details/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-HXZK2VQP