Popular Music and the Moving Image

(4 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The number of sources through which we experience music has proliferated over the past several decades. Even though the use of music in many of the earliest films and televisions programs was common, the use of popular music in contemporary film and television has become all but ubiquitous in recent years. This unit of study will examine the use of popular music in a broad range of multimedia forms from film and television to video games and the use of digital media to disseminate a multitude of musical multimedia productions. The primary goal of this subject is to help you produce original interpretive, evidence based scholarship on some aspect of the interaction and use of popular music in film, television, video games and online sources.