"Let's Rock: the Study of British Popular Music" Course Website Launch

We launched a new website of IGITI course "Let's Rock: the study of British popular music".


The purpose of the course is to introduce various methods of musical culture analysis as well as the milestones in the history of British popular music of the second half of the XX and the beginning of the XXI century. A special attention is paid to the institutions of popular music: music industry, recording system, live performances, types of audiences, music journalism, etc. Students will study how to analyze contemporary popular music using methods that lie at the intersection of different disciplines (cultural studies, media studies, sociology of music, cultural sociology, musicology).

Course teachers this year are Natalia Samutina (IGITI Leading Research Fellow) and Alexandra Kolesnik (IGITI Research Assistant).

The website with the course program and course materials is available in Russian here.