Art & Folk

Beethoven - Symphony N.9 d-moll Op. 125 (extract)

Text by Schiller here.

Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2 "Moonlight"

Chopin - Nocturne b-moll Op. 9 No. 1

Schumann - Dichterliebe, Opus 48, "A Poet's Love"

Text by Heine here.

Schumann - Liderkreis, Op. 39, "Intermezzo"

Text by Eichendorff here.

Schubert - An Silvia (D891 1826)

Text by Shakespeare here.

The virtuoso instrumentalist and composer as superstar: Franz Liszt.

Good interview on WNYC's Soundcheck with Tim Blanning author of The Triumph of Music, a 'social history' of musicians in the west and how they went from being considered merely servants to being 'stars'. This is an excellent example of metacontextual musical knowledge. Required listening.

Download entire interview mp3 here. Stream interview.

from North Vietnam: A Brao Song

from the Mississippi Delta: Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was The Night

from the Mississippi Delta: Alan Lomax Collection - Arwhoolie (Cornfield Holler)

from Ireland: The Dubliners - Home Boys Home

from Democratic Republic of Congo: Konono No. 1 - Ditshe Tshiekutala

from India: Ravi Shankar - Dhun

But this is not 'folk music' as we defined it, rather it is an example of the 'high' in a different cultural and social context.

The TV and Media Industry Blogs

The Business; Hosted by Kim Masters, Saturdays on KCRW
The Spin-Off; Hosted by Joe Adalian & Mike Schneider on KCRW

Bonus Blog:
On The Media; Hosted by Brooke Gladstone & Bob Garfield, Fridays on WNYC

As we said in class, please subscribe to The Business and The Spin-Off and listen to new episodes regularly throughout the semester. In addition to the new episodes here are some recent episodes that can complement your readings and our discussions in class in these first weeks of the semester.


from The Business:
The Year in Film and Television: 2015 Edition (from Dec. 28, 2015)

from The Spin-Off:
Summer 2015's TCA's: Streaming Media Boom & Networks as Brands (from Aug. 13, 2015)
Fall TV Fails to Excite; New Faces in Late Night (from Oct. 1, 2015)
TV Development Trends and Behind-the-Scenes Drama (from Oct. 28, 2015)

The Evolution of Streaming and a Late Night Check-In (from Nov. 17, 2015)
The Year That Was Peak TV, Tackling Tough Social Issues (from Dec. 23, 2015)
Cord Cobblers and What TV Can Learn from 'Making a Murderer' (from Jan. 20, 2016)

As a bonus check out some of the bloggers mentioned in this Complex article:
The 25 Best TV Bloggers.

Finally, remember that the treasure trove about everything TV is Twitter. If you are on Twitter you might want to start following the various hosts of The Business and The Spin-Off and branch out from there (see who they follow, who they retweet, etc).

Popular Music: Music Becomes A Thing

Readings Week 1&2:

in Garofalo, Rockin' Out:
-Introduction + Chapter 1: Tin Pan Alley

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

from Durham & Kellner (eds), Media & Cultural Studies: Keyworks
-Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"

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.

from Even Eisenberg, The Recording Angel: Music Records and Culture from Aristotle to Zappa
-Eisenberg, Chapter 2: Music Becomes a Thing

Grimes, "Genesis" Live Session for KEXP

Ritual vs Transmission?

from Kenneth Anger's 'Scorpio Rising'

Plato, The Allegory of the Cave

James Carey, "A Cultural Approach to Communication" from Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society (Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989)

**Reading Media Theory Table of Contents for Presentations**

Yay, Spring 2016!