Arts in Practice: Music

Uitgebreide vaknaam	Arts in Practice: Music
Leerdoelen	• Develop an understanding of how music events and festivals are organised • Acquire practical skills relevant to music-event organisation through hands-on experience such as through collectively planning and organising a one-day/night music festival/event • Establish knowledge of both historical and critical perspectives on music festivals and live music events and recognize their relevance for culture and society • Apply these insights to the planning of your own music event • Apply these insights to analyse and evaluate real-world music festivals as well as your own event (i.e., post-mortem analysis)
Omschrijving	Music festivals are often revered as sites for strengthening social bonds, for stimulating intense collective musical experiences, or for promoting forms of cultural heritage (e.g. Woodstock as a defining example). Yet in recent decades, the role of festivals as a facet of contemporary life has evolved to serve myriad social, economic, and cultural aims. In this course, you work collaboratively to present a music festival (or more general music-related event) created around a topical theme in relation to contemporary culture and society. Together you will conceptualize, organize, promote, finance, and execute this festival or music event to take place at the end of the semester. For this project, all students will also meet collectively in one large group for seminars and work sessions to read and discuss literature related to festivals and live music events more broadly while also reviewing festival concept models. During the first three seminars, students will brainstorm possible concepts for a festival or music-related event. After this first intensive study period, students will choose to participate within one of four possible groups embedded within the larger festival event (promotion; concept creation and execution; production; or management). The second part of the course entails constructing, creating, and executing the music event concept. In this part, students learn to develop their creative and organizational skills by participating in some way in the creative production process or in arts management roles. In this domain, students might help to compose or perform music or create a music soundscape; they may solicit musicians; they might construct a website, design promotional material; or they may manage the contracts, bookings, space, and equipment for the event. Also, throughout the course, professionals from the music field, many alums of our music track, are invited to offer guest presentations on topics such as music production, radio deejaying, festival booking, and financing arts events.
Uren per week	4
Onderwijsvorm	hoorcollege, werkcollege
Toetsvorm	opdrachten, werkstuk(ken)
Vaksoort	bachelor jr 3
Coördinator	S.A.M. Schelvis, MA.
Docent(en)	S.A.M. Schelvis, MA.
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Opgenomen in	Opleiding Jaar Periode Type Ba Kunsten, Cultuur en Media  (Major) 3 semester II keuzegroep