SemesterSpring Semester, 2020
DepartmentSophomore Class A, Undeclared Major in College of Communication Sophomore Class B, Undeclared Major in College of Communication Sophomore Class C, Undeclared Major in College of Communication Sophomore Class D, Undeclared Major in College of Communication
Course NameArt, Popular Culture and Society
InstructorHUANG CHUN MING
Credit3.0
Course TypeElective
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
Course Schedule

 


































































































































































週次



Week



課程主題



Topic



課程內容與指定閱讀



Content and Reading Assignment



教學活動與作業



Teaching Activities and Homework



學習投入時間



Student workload expectation



課堂講授



In-class Hours



課程前後



Outside-of-class Hours



1



UNIT 1: Theories and Concepts in Culture, the Arts, and Society



Introduction. Thinking sociologically about the Arts and Popular Culture



Lecture and Seminar



3



3-5



2



UNIT 1: Theories and Concepts in Culture, the Arts, and Society



Theories and Approaches I: The Frankfurt School on the arts, music, and the cultural industry



Lecture and Seminar



3



3-5



3



UNIT 1: Theories and Concepts in Culture, the Arts, and Society



Theories and Approaches II: Howard Becker’s ‘Art Worlds’ and Richard A. Peterson’s ‘The Production of Culture Perspective’



Lecture and Seminar



3



3-5



4



UNIT 1: Theories and Concepts in Culture, the Arts, and Society



Theories and Approaches III: Audiences, Aesthetics and Values



Lecture and Seminar



3



3-5



5



UNIT 1: Theories and Concepts in Culture, the Arts, and Society



Theories and Approaches IV: The Art-society Nexus: Stuart Hall’s ‘Circuit of Culture’ and Wendy Griswold’s ‘Cultural Diamond’



Lecture and Seminar



3



3-5



6



UNIT 2: Styles, Performance and the institutions



Artists: Performing Rules, Routines and Rituals



Lecture and Seminar



3



3-5



7



UNIT 2: Styles, Performance and the institutions



Genres and Texts in the Arts and Popular Culture



Lecture and Seminar



3



3-5



8



UNIT 2: Styles, Performance and the institutions



Doing an Ethnographic Study at a Concert Rehearsal



Lecture and Seminar



3



3-5



9



 



Mid-term exam



 



 



 



10



UNIT 3: Cases Studies: From the Arts to Popular Culture



Case study: Classical Music and Opera



Lecture and Seminar



3



3-5



11



UNIT 3: Cases Studies: From the Arts to Popular Culture



Case study: Popular Music



Lecture and Seminar



3



3-5



12



UNIT 3: Cases Studies: From the Arts to Popular Culture



Case study: Festivals



Lecture and Seminar



3



3-5



13



UNIT 3: Cases Studies: From the Arts to Popular Culture



Case study: Drama, Plays and Modern Dance



Lecture and Seminar



3



3-5



14



UNIT 3: Cases Studies: From the Arts to Popular Culture



Case study: Contemporary Art



Lecture and Seminar



3



3-5



15



UNIT 4: Politics, Criticism, and Social Engagement



Curation, Popular Culture and Social Movements



Lecture and Seminar



3



3-5



16



彈性授課



Fieldwork



 



3



3-5



17



彈性授課



Term paper consultancy



 



3



3-5



18



彈性授課



Term paper submission



 



3



3-6




 


Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant


Requirement/Grading

Presentations: 40%



Class Participation: 40%



Exam/paper: 20%


Textbook & Reference

Key Readings



 



Alexander, Victoria D. (2003) Sociology of The Arts: Exploring Fine and Popular Forms. MA: Blackwell Publishing.



 



Becker, H. (1982) Art Worlds. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.



Du Gay, P., Hall, S., Janes, L., Madsen, A. K., Mackay, H., and Negus, K (1997) Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkman. London: Sage.



Featherstone, M. (2007) Consumer Culture and Postmodernism. London: Sage.



Peterson, R. A. and Anand, N. (2004) ‘The Production of Culture Perspective’, Annual Review of Sociology, 30: 311–34.



 



(Websites)



http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment_and_arts



https://www.ft.com/life-arts



https://www.nytimes.com/section/arts



https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/cate/4



https://www.theguardian.com/uk/culture



 



(Film/DVD)



Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012) [DVD] Documentary Film, directed by Alison Klayman.



Le Nozze di Figaro (1976) [DVD] Film, directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle.



National Gallery (2014) [DVD] Documentary Film, directed by Frederick Wiseman.



Pina (2011) [DVD] Documentary Film, directed by Wim Wenders.



Ways of Seeing (1972) [DVD/Website] Film, created by John Berger.



 



Further Readings



 



Adorno, T. (1941) ‘On Popular Music’ in Storey, J. (ed.) (2006) Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader. Athens: University of Georgia Press.



 



Adorno, T. W. and Rabinbach, A. G. (1975) ‘Culture Industry reconsidered’, in New German Critique, 6 (Autumn): 12–19.



 



Atkinson, P. A. (2006) Everyday Arias: An Operatic Ethnography. Lanham, MD, USA: AltaMira Press.



 



Barenboim (2008) ‘Equal before Beethoven’ The Guardian. 13 December.



 



Bartie, Angela (2013) The Edinburgh Festivals: Culture and Society in Post-War Britain. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.



 



Bourdieu, P. (1996) The Rules of Art. Cambridge: Polity.



 



Frith, S. (1987) ‘Towards an Aesthetic of Popular Music’, in Leppert, R. and McClary, S. (eds), Music and Society: The Politics of Composition, Performance and Reception. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.?



Ho, W. C. (2007) ‘Music and Cultural Politics in Taiwan’, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 10 (4): 463–83.



 



McCormick, L. (2015) Performing Civility: International Competitions in Classical Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.



 



Storey, J. (2009) Cultural Theory and Popular Culture, 5th edn. London: Pearson Education.



 



Williams R (1981) Culture. Glasgow: Fontana Paperbacks



 



Willis, P. (1990) Common Culture: Symbolic Work and Play in the Everyday Cultures of the Young. Milton Keynes: Open University Press.



 



Wolff J (1984) The Social Production of Art. New York: New York University Press.



 



Zolberg, V. (1990) Constructing a Sociology of the Arts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.


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