UCJANK04 Literary Texts in Popular Music

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Summer 2013
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Radek Glabazňa, Ph.D., MA (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Radek Glabazňa, Ph.D., MA
Institute of Foreign Languages – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Prerequisites (in Czech)
The students should have sufficient knowledge of contemporary British, American and Australian pop-music and songwriting. Ideally they will also have passed courses in British and American literature and Criticism.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
  • English (programme FPF, N7310 Filo)
Course objectives (in Czech)
The aim of the course is to encourage students to have an independent, critical and rational capacity of analysis, to train students in an engaged, informed and perceptive reading of a variety of lyrics in English, to provide students with the ability to compare lyrics of different kinds, and to teach them how to use theoretical tools and secondary sources in an independent and critical fashion. The students will also be encouraged to creatively respond to different kinds of music lyrics in English.
Syllabus (in Czech)
  • This course explores the borderline between Anglophone literature and music, its delimitation and possible transgressions. Music lyrics of recognized songwriters will be viewed as poems whose musical renditions add new horizons to them and underscore the essential musicality of poetry. Themes, motifs and distinctive styles of the individual artists coming from various areas of the English-speaking world will also be analyzed.
    1. John Lennon
    2. Leonard Cohen
    3. David Bowie
    4. Patti Smith
    5. Tom Waits
    6. Bob Dylan
    7. Nick Cave
    8. P. J. Harvey
    9. Ian Curtis
    10. Morrisey
    11. Neil Young
    12. Nico
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: Seminář 8 HOD/SEM.
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2012, Summer 2014, Summer 2015, Summer 2016, Summer 2017, Summer 2018, Summer 2019, Summer 2020, Summer 2021.
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