740-300 In the Groove

This subject examines the history of recorded music and the changing relationships between musicians, audiences, composers and scholars in western art music, popular musics and musics of the world in the context of changing social, economic and political circumstances. It considers briefly the implications of orality and literacy in music and their relationship to mediated sound.

Diary of weekly readings and assigned tasks (40%); class presentation (20%); essay of 1500 words (40%).

• Jacques Attali, The Political Economy of Music. Minneapolis and London: University of Minneapolis Press, 1985.
• Erica Brady, A Spiral way: How the Phonograph Changed Ethnography. Jackson: University Press of Mississipi, 1999.
• Charles Keil and Steven Feld, Music Grooves. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
• Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy. The Technologizing of the Word. London and New York: Routledge, 1982.
• Roger Hallis, Big Sounds from Small Peoples: The Music Industry in Small Countries. London: Constable, 1984.