This paper examines how popular music is consumed and produced around the globe. While world music flows through different routes and has distinct meanings in each of its contexts, a critical examination of the place of its consumption can help us understand the reasons why such music is so often found out of its original context. Major themes to be covered include the global music industry, world music as a genre and how music is used to represent cultures. This paper is in the cultural studies strand of Music papers and builds on the ideas introduced in MUSI 103 Music in Popular Culture and MUSI 104 Music in World Cultures.
About this paper
| Paper title | Popular Music 2 |
|---|---|
| Subject | Music |
| EFTS | 0.15 |
| Points | 18 points |
| Teaching period | Not offered in 2026 (On campus) |
| Domestic Tuition Fees ( NZD ) | $1,318.20 |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Prerequisite
- 36 100-level points
- Restriction
- MUSI 369
- Schedule C
- Arts and Music
- Notes
- No prior musical knowledge required.
- Eligibility
- No prior musical knowledge in music notation and theory is required.
- Contact
- More information link
View more information on the School of Performing Arts' website.
- Teaching staff
Paper Co-ordinator: Dr Michael Holland
Teaching Staff:
Amanda Mills
- Paper Structure
This paper covers global popular music in a cultural context.
- Teaching Arrangements
- Two 1-hour lectures per week.
- Textbooks
- Textbooks are not required for this paper.
- Course outline
Please contact the School of Performing Arts office for a copy of the most recent paper profile.
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Global perspective, Interdisciplinary perspective, Scholarship, Critical thinking, Cultural understanding.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete the paper will:
- Develop a critical understanding of music and globalisation
- Gain familiarity with the historical development of the global music industry
- Gain an understanding of pertinent theories and concepts relevant to popular music globally
- Develop an understanding of globalised and localised music cultures
- Gain the ability to identify diverse popular music
- Develop an ability to analyse diverse popular music in different cultural settings
- Assessment details
Article review 30%
Online Test 30%
Research Essay 40%
This paper examines how popular music is consumed and produced around the globe. While world music flows through different routes and has distinct meanings in each of its contexts, a critical examination of the place of its consumption can help us understand the reasons why such music is so often found out of its original context. Major themes to be covered include the global music industry, world music as a genre and how music is used to represent cultures. This paper is in the cultural studies strand of Music papers and builds on the ideas introduced in MUSI 103 Music in Popular Culture and MUSI 104 Music in World Cultures.
About this paper
| Paper title | Popular Music 2 |
|---|---|
| Subject | Music |
| EFTS | 0.15 |
| Points | 18 points |
| Teaching period | Not offered in 2027 (On campus) |
| Domestic Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for 2027 have not yet been set |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Prerequisite
- 36 100-level points
- Restriction
- MUSI 369
- Schedule C
- Arts and Music
- Notes
- No prior musical knowledge required.
- Eligibility
No prior musical knowledge in music notation and theory is required.
- Contact
- More information link
View more information on the School of Performing Arts' website.
- Teaching staff
Paper Co-ordinator: Dr Michael Holland
Teaching Staff:
- Paper Structure
This paper covers global popular music in a cultural context.
- Teaching Arrangements
Two 1-hour lectures per week.
- Textbooks
Textbooks are not required for this paper.
- Course outline
Please contact the School of Performing Arts office for a copy of the most recent paper profile.
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Global perspective, Interdisciplinary perspective, Scholarship, Critical thinking, Cultural understanding.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete the paper will:
- Develop a critical understanding of music and globalisation.
- Gain familiarity with the historical development of the global music industry.
- Gain an understanding of pertinent theories and concepts relevant to popular music globally.
- Develop an understanding of globalised and localised music cultures.
- Gain the ability to identify diverse popular music.
- Develop an ability to analyse diverse popular music in different cultural settings.
- Assessment details
Article review = 30%
Online test = 30%
Research essay = 40%