Popular Music
Kód: BMEGT43V104
Date: Wednesday 14:15-15:45
Oktató: Emília Barna
"From The Beatles to Beyoncé"
This subject aims at introducing students to the field of popular music studies and discussing its most important areas and approaches with the help of academic literature and musical examples. We will look at the relations between music and society, communities, identity, locality, globalisation, as well as power; study the changing relations between technology and music as an industry; and gain insight into the particular methodology of popular music analysis. We also look at historical approaches to popular music, as well as the organising and social embeddedness of musical genres and styles. Completing the course does not require any previous musical knowledge, only a basic interest in popular music and society.
Dr. Emília Barna is a sociologist and popular music researcher. She completed a Popular Music Studies PhD programme in 2011 at the University of Liverpool School of Music. The title of her doctoral thesis was "Online and Offline Rock Music Networks: A case study on Liverpool, 2007-2009." Her main research areas include the sociology of popular music, the study of the relationship between music scenes or genres and technology, the digital music industries, and the gender aspects of popular music. With Tamás Tófalvy, she recently co-edited the book Made in Hungary: Studies in Popular Music (2017, Routledge). Outside of BME, she also teaches as part of the “University of Music” programme of the University of Pécs. She is Advisory Board Member of IASPM@Journal and member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) since 2005. Between 2013 and 2017, she was Chair of IASPM Hungary. From 2017, she has been a member of the Working Group for Public Sociology “Helyzet."