Course: Popular Music 2

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Course title Popular Music 2
Course code KHK/HNO2
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Souček Jaromír, Prof. PhDr. MgA. CSc.
  • Kučera Dougles, Mgr.
Course content
Content of the lectures: Methodology of the subject. General characteristic and function of a non-artificial music (NAM). Types of NAM. Terminology. European development of NAM until its encounter with jazz. Development of NAM in Czech Republic. Jazz ? characteristics. Fundamental characteristics of musical-interpretive instruments of jazz with accent to kinetic element. Folk-lore formations of Afro-American music. Evolutionary stages of jazz music ? march jazz, Chicago style. Evolutionary stages of jazz ? New York, swing. Evolutionary stages of jazz ? bebop. Evolutionary stages of jazz ? cool jazz, west coast jazz, third stream, hard bop, soul jazz. Evolutionary stages of jazz ? free jazz, jazz rock, current jazz. Present-day popular music ? characteristics. Country music, rhythm&blues, R&R ? evolution, leading representatives, rock music of 60s, rock music of 70s.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Multimedia supported teaching, Lecture
  • Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40) - 26 hours per semester
  • Contact hours - 26 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
Student should master the general knowledge of musical theory, at least at the level of primary school musical education at ZUŠ and should have general cultural awareness.
learning outcomes
Student should know the fundamental musical sources of jazz music, remember the fundamental traits of jazz music and describe the main stages of jazz music development and main genres of popular music until the beginning of the 70s of 20th century. Student should be able to differentiate and identify them based on a listening.
Skills
The student should be able to name the basic musical sources of jazz music, should recognize the basic features of jazz music and also determine the main stages of the development of jazz music and the basic genres of popular music until the 70s of the 20th century based on listening
Competences
N/A
He independently deepens his professional knowledge and skills
teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture
Multimedia supported teaching
Skills
Interactive lecture
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Competences
Lecture with visual aids
Students' portfolio
assessment methods
Knowledge
Test
Individual presentation at a seminar
Skills
Individual presentation at a seminar
Test
Competences
Test
Recommended literature
  • Černý, Jiří. Hvězdy tehdejších hitparád. 1. vyd. Praha : Panton, 1989.
  • Dorůžka, Lubomír; Dorůžka, Petr. Panoráma populární hudby 1918/1978 aneb Nevšední písničkáři všedních dní. Praha : MF, 1987.
  • Dorůžka, Lubomír. Panoráma jazzu : Lubomír Dorůžka ; Ilustr. Jiří Šlitr ; Fotogr. Miroslav Jodas. [aj.] ; Přebal, vazba a graf. úprava Vladimír Nagaj. 1. vyd. Praha : Mladá fronta, 1990. ISBN 80-204-0092-3.
  • Kotek, Josef. O české populární hudbě a jejích posluchačích : Od historie k současnosti. 1. vyd. Praha : Panton, 1990. ISBN 80-7039-037-9.
  • Lindaur V. - Konrád O. Život v tahu aneb třicet roků rocku.. Praha, 1990.
  • Poledňák I. Úvod do problematiky nonartificiální hudby. Olomouc: UP,, 2000.
  • Poledňák, Ivan; Cafourek, Ivan. Sondy do popu a rocku. 1. vyd. Jinočany : H & H, 1992. ISBN 80-85467-14-3.
  • Prokeš. Česká folková píseň : v kontextu 60.-80. let 20. století / Josef Prokeš. Brno, 2011. ISBN 978-80-210-5431.
  • PROKEŠ, Josef. Česká folková píseň: v kontextu 60.-80. let 20. století.. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2011. ISBN 978-80-210-5431-8.
  • Weiss, Tomáš. Beaty, bigbeaty, breakbeaty : [průvodce moderní hudbou 90. let]. 1. vyd. Praha : Maťa, 1998. ISBN 80-86013-41-3.


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