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Music and Sport

Code: MUSI222

Credits: 15

Semester: Semester 2

This module provides a critical understanding of music’s role and prominence in sport, encompassing perspectives from practical sporting experience to mediatised sport, and in linkages between music and sport as components of the entertainment industry. An innovative inclusion to the curriculum, it will encourage interdisciplinary questioning as a key component of critical engagement required for the module, through historical and contemporary case studies, supported by scholarly literature. This will enable students to develop knowledge through real-world case studies focused on music in relation to specific sports and sporting events, explicating how music features in the experience of sport as viewers, practitioners and fans. As a result, it will explore concurrent themes in music and sport such as performance and representation, gender and race, and more broadly, intersections of music and sport in interrogations from varied studies on media, politics, sociology, psychology and anthropology.