Monday, January 19, 2009

Welcome To The Pop Music & Mass Culture Class


Readings Week 1:

in Cambridge Companion:
-Introduction + Chronology
-Theberge, "'Plugged In': Technology & Popular Music"
-Frith, "The Popular Music Industry"
-Frith, "Pop Music"

in Garofalo:
-Introduction + Chapter 1: Tin Pan Alley

from Durham & Kellner (eds), Media & Cultural Studies: Keyworks

-Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
nb. You can find this on-line here in PDF format or here in an interactive audio-visual presentation.

from Frith & Goodwin (eds), On Record

-Adorno, "On Popular Music"
nb. You can find this essay together with "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" co-written with Max Horkheimer --an essay which if you have not read should definitely do so-- here.

-Riesman, "Listening to Popular Music"
nb. Find it here on JSTOR --requires subscription. You can access it from computers on-campus. If you have problems get help from the kind library people.

-Hall & Whannel, "The Young Audience"
Here.

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