• Eisenberg, Chap 1-6



• Walter Benjamin, The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction
  
  
• Stuart Hall, Encoding/decoding
  
  
• Bring in one of your favorite recordings

• Eisenberg, Chap 7-12



• Millard, Chap 1



• Chanan, Chaps 1-2



• K. Peter Etzkorn, Notes in defense of mass communication technology
  
  
• Glenn Gould, T he prospect of recording

• Stuart Hall, Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms
  
  
• Roland Barthes, The Grain of the Voice
  
  
• Jacques Attali, " Repeating " from Noise: The Political Economy of Music
  
  
• Bernard Gedron, Theodor Adorno Meets The Cadillacs
  
  

• Millard, Chap 16



• Chanan, Chap 9



• Simon Frith, The industrialization of popular music
  
  
• Paul Hirsch, Processing fads and fashions:
  An organizational-set analysis of cultural industry systems

• Phil Wainman, "The Role Of The Producer" from J. Borwick, Sound Recording Practice,
  
  
• Edward Kealy, From craft to art: The case of sound mixers and popular music
  
  
• Paul Clarke, 'A magic science': Rock music as recording art

Edison's first"

For some examples of acoustic recording, click here

• Millard, Chaps 2-5

  A TIMELINE OF MILESTONES IN POPULAR MUSIC/RECORDING HISTORY, 1877-1954

• Millard, Chaps 6-15



• Chanan, Chap 3-4, 7



• Paper Proposal Due

• Richard Peterson and David Berger, Cycles in symbol production: The case of popular music
  
  
• Eric Rothenbuhler and Tom McCourt, Commercial radio and popular music: Processes of selection and factors of influence
  
  
• Jonathan Tankel and Wenmouth Williams, Media economics and radio: The shift from AM to FM

• Chanan, Chap 5

• Chanan, Chap 6



• Outline/Bibliography Due

• Chanan, Chap 8



• Web/Magazine Reports Due (COM 491)

• Millard, Chaps 17-18