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Today’s professional musician works increasingly across diverse local and global contexts. A knowledge of the social, cultural and ethical issues inherent in music enables students to critically engage with music from a broad range of perspectives. This course aims to develop students’ critical thinking skills, cultural capability, and written communication, with an emphasis on how these skills and knowledge apply to professional practice in music.

This course is designed to introduce students to a range of critical perspectives through which to view music, and invites students to identify and critically examine and problematize the assumptions which underpin our knowledge of the role of music in culture and society. A range of perspectives will be explored, with an emphasis on those which provide alternative views to the dominant paradigm of Western art music. Students will research and formally articulate critical and evidenced knowledges of various aspects of music within culture and society.

On completion of this course students will be able to:

1. Analyse a variety of critical perspectives through which to view music and its role in culture and society (including alternative views to the dominant paradigm of Western art music)
2. Develop critical thinking and written communication skills through the examination of ideas about music from critical perspectives to develop cultural capability;
3. Reflect on the social, cultural and ethical issues present in narratives in and about music including its production, performance and consumption to situate their own professional practice within these contexts.