Assignment:
Course Description:
This course will introduce students to the life and music of Shane MacGowan. MacGowan is best known as the vocalist of The Pogues, an Anglo-Irish punk band formed in London in the 1980s. The Pogues created a distinctive hybrid style that combined punk rock with traditional Irish music. This course will analyze MacGowan's hybrid style as a case study of transnationalism. Thinking about MacGowan's career is an opportunity to consider how Irish national identity was constructed and transformed by transnationalmigrants that employed traditional style in a punk context.
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Demonstrate knowledge of the life and music of Shane MacGowan.
2. Demonstrate knowledge of key concepts in the study of transnationalism.
3. Analyze cross-cultural and global perspectives in the style and lyrics of the music of The Pogues.
Required Texts
MacGowan, Shane, and Victoria Mary Clarke. A Drink with Shane MacGowan. New York: Grove Press, 2001.