Latest Module Specifications
Current Academic Year 2025 - 2026
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Description A course designed to familiarise learners with the history of jazz, its major figures, and to give an overview of how the music evolved and developed, and the social context in which it existed at different periods of its evolution. The major stylistic eras of jazz will be covered including the origins of the music, the swing era, the Bebop revolution, modal jazz, the rise of the avant-garde, jazz-rock, contemporary jazz and contribution of women to the history and development of jazz. Discussion of the musical aesthetics of different eras will be combined with how these evolved via the social and historical environment in which they evolved | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Outcomes 1. Be fully conversant with the history of jazz since its foundation to the present day 2. Be familiar with all of the major figures and innovators in the music and be aware of how they contributed to the history and development of jazz 3. Develop critical thinking and an ability in how to interpret historical and social information 4. Know how use this thinking to form opinions about their own work and place it in the jazz continuum | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
The development of jazz This module will cover the development of jazz from being a regional, relatively simple folk-like music to becoming a complex art music with an international reach and influence. The survey of the evolution of the music will be mostly done chronologically, and the major musical developments will be discussed. Areas covered will include: - Origins of jazz - Early jazz in the New Orleans context - The swing era – Kansas City, and New York - Duke Ellington - The Bebop Revolution - The evolution of Cool and West Coast Jazz - Hard Bop - The Music of Thelonious Monk - Modal Jazz - Miles Davis and John Coltrane - Ornette Coleman and free jazz - Jazz Rock and the fusion movement - 1980s – M-Base and Young Lions - Contemporary jazz, post 1990 - Women in jazz – the leading female practitioners and their contribution - The development of European jazz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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