February 23
First day of class.
SCENES: AN INTRODUCTION
March 2
First writing assignment due.
David Byrne, “How to Make a Scene,” in How Music Works (San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2012), 251-66.
Suzanne Smith, “Can’t Forget the Motor City,” in Dancing in the Streets: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999), 1-20.
Dewar Macleod, “Introduction: Making Scenes,” in Making the Scene in the Garden State: Popular Music in New Jersey from Edison to Springsteen and Beyond (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020), 1-12.
Recommended:
Felix Denk and Sven von Thulen, “Der Klang Der Famille: Berlin, Techno, and the Fall of the Wall.” Pitchfork, November 11, 2014.
THE NON-LOCAL IN 'LOCAL' MUSIC
March 9
Chris Rojek, Pop Music, Pop Culture (Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2011), 1-8, 31-34, 78-89.
Howard Becker, "Art Worlds and Collective Activity," in Art Worlds (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1982), 1-39.
MAKING A SCENE
March 16
Second writing assignment due.
Ken Spring, "Behind the Rave: Structure and Agency in a Rave Scene," in Music Scenes: Local, Translocal, and Virtual (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2004), 48-63.
The Last Pirates: UK Pirate Radio (2017, dir. Jaime D’Cruz).
Grace Elizabeth Hale, Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2020), 1-30, 41-116.
Michael Ramirez, “I Feel It In My Bones: The Development of Musician Identity,” in Destined for Greatness: Passions, Dreams, and Aspirations in a College Music Town (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018), 77-103.
Recommended:
Richard Faussett and Campbell Robertson, “How a Hardcore Liberal Lawyer Joined the Pro-Trump Mob,” New York Times, February 18, 2021.
REAL ESTATE AND MUSIC
March 23
Michael Heller, Chapters 2 ("Influences, Antecedents, Early Engagements"), 3 ("The Jazz Loft Era"), 5 ("Community") of Loft Jazz: Improvising New York in the 1970s (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2016).
Tim Lawrence, “Big Business, Real Estate Determinism and Dance Culture in New York, 1980-1988,” Journal of Popular Music Studies 23, no. 3 (2011): 288-306.
Recommended:
Carrie Battan, “Inside Sour Patch Kids’ Brooklyn Crash Pad for Indie Bands,” Vulture, February 15, 2015.
THE GLOBAL SOUNDS OF THE INTERNET
March 30
Third writing assignment due.
JungBong Choi, “Hallyu vs. Hallyu-hwa: Cultural Phenomenon vs. Institutional Campaign” in Hallyu 2.0: The Korean Wave in the Age of Social Media, ed. Sangjoon Lee and Abe Markus Nornes (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2015), 31-52.
Soojin Kim, “Controlling or Supporting? A History of Cultural Policies on Popular Music” in Made in Korea: Studies in Popular Music, ed. Hyunjoon Shin and Seung-Ah Lee (Taylor and Francis: 2016), 181-190.
John Lie, “Seoul Calling” in K-Pop: Popular Culture, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea (University of California Press: 2014).
Jon Caramanica, “The Rowdy World of Rap’s New Underground,” New York Times, June 22, 2017.
Derek Walmsley, "Lost in Non-Space," The Wire/Red Bull.
Ed Gillett, "What Does Red Bull's Corporate Exit Mean for Underground Music?," The Quietus, April 4, 2019.
Recommended:
Damon Krukowski, "A Tale of Two Ecosystems: On Bandcamp, Spotify, and the Wide-Open Future," NPR, August 19, 2020.
MID-SEMESTER RECESS: March 31 - April 4
FANDOM AND ENGAGEMENT
April 6
Patti Smith, Just Kids (New York: Ecco, 2010).
Recommended:
Joli Jenson, “Fandom as Pathology: The Consequences of Characterization,” in The Adoring Audience: Fan Culture and Popular Media, ed. Lisa Lewis (Routledge, 1992), 9-29.
Barbara Ehrenreich, Elizabeth, Gloria Jacobs, “Beatlemania: Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” in The Adoring Audience: Fan Culture and Popular Media, ed. Lisa Lewis (Routledge, 1992), 84-106.
Joshua Davis, “The Persecution of Daniel Lee,” Stanford Magazine, July/August 2011.
PLACE "CREATES" MUSIC
April 13
Final project: one-page proposal due.
Emma Warren, Make Some Space: Tuning Into Total Refreshment Centre (London: Sweet Machine, 2019).
TOURISM & CITY BRANDING
April 20
Dave Grazian, “The Fashion of Their Dreams: Inventing Authenticity in the Nocturnal City,” in Blue Chicago: The Search for Authenticity in Urban Blues Clubs (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), 61-86.
Jonathan Wynn, “‘When Country Comes to Town’: Nashville’s Country Music Festival,” in Music|City: American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville, and Newport (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), 82-124.
Recommended:
Aarthi Swaminathan, “No, Drake is not Responsible for 5% of Toronto’s Tourism Economy,” Yahoo! News, July 11, 2018.
HERITAGE
April 27
Max Pearl, “Dimitri Hegemann Dreams of Detroit,” Resident Advisor, August 22, 2017.
Ash Lauren, “Underground Music Academy is ushering in a new generation of revolutionary artists,” The Face, October 28, 2020.
Sarah Baker et al, “Community Well-Being, Post-Industrial Music Cities and the Turn to Popular Music Heritage,” in Music Cities: Evaluating a Global Cultural Policy Concept, ed. Christina Ballico & Allan Watson (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), 43-61.
Leonard Nevarez, “How Joy Division Came to Sound Like Manchester: Myth and Ways of Listening in the Neoliberal City,” Journal of Popular Music Studies 25, no. 1 (2013): 56-76.
BLANK WEEK: TBA
May 4
Final project: scene introductions due.
PLACE IN A DIGITAL AGE
May 11
Forrest Stuart, Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2020).
Recommended:
“Is UK drill music really behind London's wave of violent crime?” The Guardian, April 9, 2018.
“Amid London’s Crime Surge, Authorities Take Aim at ‘Drill,’ a Bleak Style of Rap Music,” New York Times, June 1, 2018.
“For British Drill Stars, the Police Are Listening Closely,” New York Times, January 11, 2021.
WHAT CAN CITIES DO?
May 18
Final project: interventions and self-evalutions due.
Christina Ballico and Allan Watson, “Introduction,” in Music Cities: Evaluating a Global Cultural Policy Concept, ed. C. Ballico & A. Watson (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), 1-18.
Jocelyn Kane et al, “Regulating the San Francisco Sound: How a Music Venue Crackdown Inspired Pioneering Advancements in Entertainment Regulation and Support,” in Music Cities: Evaluating a Global Cultural Policy Concept, ed. Christina Ballico & Allan Watson (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), 145-165.
May 27 (last day of study period)
Final project: individual final papers due. |
