CAST 204 - Pop Music and Media

FC ARHU CD

4 credits
This class explores the impact that personal and mass media have on the development, growth, circulation, and distribution of pop music in the United States and the UK. Race, class, gender in turn affect the mediation of pop music as creation and consumption drive technological changes. From 45s and LPs to radios, car stereos to personal entertainment devices, cable television to computers, mp3s to internet streaming, various media forms have dramatically influenced access to and the content of the most consumed music in the world.

This course is appropriate for new students.