MSC IND 29Docs that Rock: Music Documentary in History and Practice
Music Industry · 5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Close look at history of popular music documentaries and goals, methods, and challenges of making them. Consideration of what makes for successful (or unsuccessful) music documentaries. Viewed through very specific focus of story and storytelling. Students may develop their own documentary project as part of coursework.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
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