What's musical urbanism? why now?
September 5
FACTOR: The Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent on Recordings
Richard Florida, Cities and the Creative Class
The Urban Institute, “Cultural Vitality in Communities: Interpretation and Indicators”
Approaches to musical urbanism
September 12
Readings:
Mantle Hood, "Introduction." Pp. 1-23 in The Ethnomusicologist (Kent State University Press, 1971). [download from Blackboard: Readings]
Charlie Gillett, "Blues-Based Styles: Dancehall Blues, Club Blues, Bar Blues." Pp. 121-51 in The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll (Da Capo, 1996 [1970]). [download from Blackboard: Readings]
Adam Krims, chaps. 1-2.
Cabaret and Modern Europe
September 19
Readings:
Harold B. Segel, "Paris: Black Cats and Reed Pipes." Pp. 1-84 in Turn-of-the-Century Cabaret (Columbia University Press, 1987). [download from Blackboard: Readings]
Lisa Appignanesi, "The Roaring Twenties." Pp. 90-151 in The Cabaret (Universe Books, 1975). [download from Blackboard: Readings]
Peter Jelavic, "The Weimar Revue" and "Political Cabaret at the End of the Republic." Pp. 154-227 in Berlin Cabaret (Harvard University Press, 1993). [download from Blackboard: Readings]
Recommended readings:
"Life is a Weimar Dream, Old Chum, and Downtown Loves a Nouveau Cabaret" (New York Times, July 17).
Suggested listening and viewing.
The culture industries
September 26
Readings:
Theodor Adorno, "On the Fetish-Character in Music and the Regression of Listening" (1938). Pp. 270-99 in The Essential Frankfurt School Reader, edited by A. Arato and E. Gebhardt (Urizen Books, 1978). [download from Blackboard: Readings]
John Lovering, "The Global Music Industry: Contradictions in the Commodification of the Sublime." Pp. 31-56 in The Place of Music, edited by A. Leyshon, D. Matless and G. Revill (Guilford Press, 1998). [download from Blackboard: Readings]
Adam Krims chaps. 4-5.
Recommended readings:
Keith Negus, "Cultural Production and the Corporation: Musical Genres and the Strategic Management of Creativity in the US Recording Industry." Media, Culture & Society 20(1998): 259-79.
October 3
Essay questions due.
Reading:
Ken Emerson, Always Magic in the Air, especially chaps. 1-2, 4, 6-7, 9-10, 12, 14, 17-19.
Swinging London
October 10
Reading:
Shawn Levy, Ready, Steady, Go!, especially pp. 1-223 and 319-22.
Suggested listening and viewing.
Los Angeles and the singer-songwriter
October 24
Music review due.
Reading:
Barney Hoskyns, Hotel California, especially chaps. 1-8.
Suggested listening and viewing.
1970s New York City: an extended investigation
October 31
Reading:
Peter Shapiro, Turn the Beat Around, especially chaps. 1, 2 (pp. 57-74), 3 (pp. 89-96 and 108-115), 4-5, 6 (pp. 266-271) and 7.
Recommended reading:
"Summer of 'Son of Sam' a World Away" (AM New York, August 10, 2007). See accompanying photos here.
Reading:
Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain, Please Kill Me.
November 14
Reading:
Jeff Chang, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop.
Musical tourism
November 21
Reading:
David Grazian, Blue Chicago, especially Introduction, chaps. 1-2, 4-6.
Recommended readings:
"Laughs, Tears, Guitars" (concert review, Chicago Tribune, July 30, 2007).
November 28
Student presentations of final projects.
Student presentations of final projects (cont.).
December 13 (finals week)
Individual papers on final projects due.
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