Session, Dates: 1 (08/27/2012 - 12/15/2012)

Days: M W F

Time: 12:45 - 01:35 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.

About The Instructor(s)

Heather Pinson, Ph.D.