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Language requirements: min. English B2, German A1
This interdisciplinary course explores club cultures, electronic music scenes and their festivals. The seminar investigates Berlin as a traditional stronghold of the international electronic music scene. It will supply the participants with scientific tools (concepts, discourses, theories, methods) for researching popular music. Through different theories and case studies the students will investigate the complexity of electronic music as a highly organized and institutionalized cultural practice within a postmodern society. The seminar will involve approaches from fields like anthropology, musicology, organizational studies and cultural studies. The students will learn how to apply ethnographic empirical research methods (participant observation, fieldnotes, memos, interviews). Those methods will be applied and practiced in class, teams and groups.
Towards the end of the semester we will examine music festivals as cultural practice. This will include a focus on the festival Club Transmediale (CTM) in Berlin, which is one of the oldest European festivals for electronic and experimental music; takes place annually at the end of January. The class will visit the CTM exhibition and discourse program or club night. Students will be able to present their research outcomes at the CTM Education Networking Day.
The exhibition is free of admission. The discourse program might charge an admission fee of max. 5€ for the day. There are also some free concerts. Those students who would like to research at a CTM clubnight or other concert have to consider a budget of 15€.
The students will conduct a short field study on one of the many institutions in Berlin dealing with the electronic music scene (club, label, media, agency, festival or other institution). And will do a seminar input on a special scene/ genre of electronic music (can be combined). The aim is to do a series of group presentations at the CTM Education Networking Day. |
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