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USSC1604: Sex, Race and Rock in the USA
2025 unit information
This unit explores the cultural history of and intersections between sexuality, race and rock music in the United States from Elvis to Beyonce. Influenced by black and working-class cultures, and with sexuality embedded in its form and practice, rock music challenged and transformed existing norms of family, sex and gender. Through subjects including Black women, glam rock, and disco, we will learn that rock music, far from frivolous, provided a realm for rebellion, freedom, community and profit.
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| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | United States Studies Centre |
| Credit points | 6 |
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USSC2604 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. understand sexuality, gender and race in the cultural history of American rock and rock's impact on social norms
- LO2. critically analyse popular cultural forms in scholarly ways
- LO3. express conceptually difficult ideas and independent critical thinking in oral and written forms
- LO4. pose research questions and access and synthesise diverse sources to build and defend a reasoned position in response to those questions.
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Intensive June - July 2024
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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Intensive June - July 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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