12016 Course Readings

Readings

READINGS MMST 12016

The following readings are associated with the lectures, the workshops and, the tutorials for this course. Most may be accessed via the Course Resources On-line (CRO) facility maintained by the CQU library in accordance with CQU copyright policy and, International and, Australian copyright laws.

If you are accessing the CRO facility from outside of the university network, e.g. via the Internet from home, you will need to provide password details as per the information link on the CRO homepage.

All CROs prepared for this course to date are provided at URL: http://www.library.cqu.edu.au/eres/mmst12016.htm.

Some other resources may be direct links to sources available on the World Wide Web.

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The provision of readings is an on-going process and so the resources listed will change from time to time, (don't forget to refresh or reload this page to ensure that you are viewing up-to-date data).

Reading List:

Lecture Week 1:

Reading 1

Rumsey, Francis. “Sound and Recording: an Introduction”, Oxford; Boston: Focal Press, 1992, pp 176-79. [CRO]

Reading 2

Chion, Michel. "Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen."

New York, Columbia University Press 1994, pp 25-34. [CRO]

Lecture Week 2:

Reading 1

Feld, Steven. A Sweet Lullaby for World Music. "Public Culture". 12.1, (2000): 145-171. [This reading also available on-line via "Deep in the Jungle" © 2001 at URL:
http://www.bowdoin.edu/~triday/the_jungle/dfpress_00-00-00sweetlullabyforworld.htm]

Lecture Week 3:

Reading 1

Laing, Dave. “A Voice Without a Face: Popular Music and the Phonograph in the 1890s”, Popular Music, 10/1, 1991: 1-9. [Not yet available on-line]

Reading 2

Toynbee, Jason. “Technology: the Instrumental Instrument” in his Making Popular Music: Musicians, Creativity and Institutions, London: Arnold, 2000, pp 68-101. Click here for PDF (you'll need Acrobat reader)

Workshop Week 3:

Reading 1

Vaughan, Tay. "Multimedia: making it work", Berkely: Osbourne McGraw-Hill, c. 1994, 2 ed. pp. 248-255. Click here for PDF (you'll need Acrobat reader)

Reading 2

Alten, Stanley R. "Audio in Media", 2 ed. Belmont: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2002, pp.125-9, 138.Click here for PDF (you'll need Acrobat reader)

Lecture Week 4:

Reading 1

This reading also referenced at Lecture 2 above.

Lecture Week 5:

Reading 1

Buchahan, Ian. Deleuze and Pop Music, "Australian Humanities Review", August 1997.
[http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-August-1997/buchanan.html]

Lecture Week 6

Reading 1

Jones, Steve. “Music That Moves: Popular Music, Distribution and Network Technologies”, Cultural Studies, 16/2, 2002, 213-232. Click here for PDF (you'll need Acrobat reader)

Reading 2

Kasaras, Kostas. “Music in the Age of Free Distribution: MP3 and Society”, First Monday 7/1, 2002, Available at URL: http://firstmonday.org/issues/isue7_1/kasaras/index.html .

Lecture Week 7

Reading 1

Kim Cascoyne. The Aesthetics of Failure: "Post-Digital" Tendencies in Contemporary music. Computer Music Journal, Winter 2000. Click here for PDF (you'll need Acrobat reader)

Lecture Week 8

Reading 1

De Certeau, Michel. The Practice of Everyday Life. Rendall, Steven, Tr. University of California Press, 1984, pp 29-39, Chapter 3 "Making Do": Uses and Tactics [excerpt]. Click here for PDF (you'll need Acrobat reader)

Lecture Week 9

[Suggested further reading- not on-line]

Elizabeth Weis and John Belton (ed) 'Theory and Practice Film Sound", 1985, New York, Columbia University Press.

Week 10 readings

T.B.A.

Lecture Week 11

Reading 1

Lombardi, Victor. “Audio on the Internet”, 1997, on-line via "noise/between/stations" web site, at URL:
http://www.noisebetweenstations.com/personal/essays/audio_on_the_internet/Preface.html,
for the Music Technology Program at the New York University Graduate School of Education; ©1995-1999 noise/between/stations.