COMM1080-A Rock and Rhetoric (Spring 2014)
Course Details
Session, Dates: 1 (01/13/2014 - 05/03/2014)
Days: M W F
Time: 12:00 - 12:50 pm
Location: Moon Campus
Room: Wheatley Center 111
Seats Available: Course Full, Choose another
Credits: 3
Course Description
This course will serve as an introduction into the critical analysis of popular music as a communicative device. The class will focus on the rhetoric used in the text, image, and sound of rock and roll. These devices successfully connect social issues with a mass audience through the organized form of music. Although a form of entertainment, popular music is also a response to the social/political eruptions in American history. We will explore those conditions in society that provided the foundation for creative musical collaborations, resulting not only in communicating a message to a mass audience but also those collaborations that conditioned popular taste to that which is now culturally accepted.
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About the Instructor(s)
Heather H. Pinson, Ph.D.
pinson@rmu.edu
412-397-6463 phone
412-397-6468 fax
Wheatley Center 208
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Department Head, Arts and Humanities
Arts and Humanities
Professor of Media Arts
Arts and Humanities
Professor of Humanities
Arts and Humanities
pinson@rmu.edu
412-397-6463 phone
412-397-6468 fax
Wheatley Center 208
Profile