Analysing Popular Music (Module)

Order Description
The assignment must be word-processed, double spaced and paginated. The essay will be 2000 words in length (excluding bibliography).

Choose ONE of the following essay titles that is most convenient to you for the assessment.

1. Write a critical response to those who insist on making value judgements about “good” and “bad” music?
2. “The production of musical commodities undermines creativity in popular music production”. Discuss.
3. Who makes music stars: the fans or the industry?
4. ‘The question we should be asking is not what does popular music reveal about “the people” but how does it construct them’. Discuss with reference to the cultural
study of music and everyday life.
5. To what extent is folk music an invented tradition?
6.‘Music that works politically is not necessarily music that makes political change its self-consciously ascribed goal’ (John Street). Discuss.
Again Choose ONE.
15-20 References with minimum internet sources.