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Here is the syllabus for a new course I’m teaching this spring at the Big H<\/a>. It’s the culmination of a few years of piqued curiosity about “public” as term and concept, noun and adjective. As happy as teaching technomusicology<\/a> made me, this sort of course — an intense, focused series of readings on a subject I find fascinating — has few parallels as far as intellectual pleasures go. Here’s hoping I have a good team of co-readers glad to read along. (I’ll note that, aptly, a great number of these readings are available, ahem, publicly.) <\/p>\n

Without further ado…<\/em><\/p>\n

Music 208r: Musical Publics<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

\"me,<\/a><\/p>\n

Spring 2013
\nTues 4-6pm
\nDavison Room\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

INTRODUCTION<\/strong> <\/p>\n

In the age of technological reproducibility and mass media, and especially since the advent of the Internet, the Web, and social media, the notion of the public is an ever shifting but paramount concern. Thanks to its special affordances and remarkable ubiquity, music offers a powerful lens into questions of publicness and public spheres. How do musicians and musical texts\u2014never mind musicologists\u2014address particular publics, and how has this changed over time? <\/p>\n

To better understand music\u2019s role in public culture, this course examines the idea of the public sphere in historical and theoretical perspective. From philosophy to the social sciences to more recent theoretical propositions and ethnographic work, we will consider a variety of publics, the (musical) media that bring them into being, and the implications for acknowledging music as part and parcel of collective experience. Our study will span the rise of print culture, the broadcast era, and the more recent development of what have been dubbed networked publics.<\/p>\n

WEEKLY TOPICS & READINGS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Week 1 \/ Jan 29 — Introduction
\n<\/strong>Syllabus review, preliminary discussion\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Week 2 \/ Feb 5 — Foundational Texts
\n<\/strong>Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition<\/em>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958. (p. 1-78)<\/p>\n

Habermas, Jurgen. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere<\/em>. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991 [1962]. (browse all, but esp: 1-56, 159-243) <\/p>\n

Week 3 \/ Feb 12 — Critique & Elaboration
\n<\/strong>Calhoun, \u201cIntroduction.\u201d In Habermas and the Public Sphere<\/em>, 1-42. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992.<\/p>\n

Fraser, Nancy. “Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy.” Social Text<\/em> 25\/26 (1990): 56-80.<\/p>\n

Hansen, Miriam. \u201cUnstable Mixtures, Dilated Spheres: Negt and Kluge\u2019s The Public Sphere and Experience, Twenty Years Later.\u201d Public Culture<\/em> Vol. 5, No. 2 (1993): 179-212.<\/p>\n

Week 4 \/ Feb 19 — Print Cultures & Imagined Communities
\n<\/strong>Anderson, Benedict. \u201cImagined Communities.\u201d In Nations and Nationalism, a Reader<\/em>, eds. Philip Spencer & Howard Wollman, 48-59. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005.<\/p>\n

Bohlman, Philip V. \u201cComposing the Cantorate: Westernizing Europe\u2019s Other Within.\u201d In Western Music and Its Others<\/em>, eds. Georgina Born and David Hesmondhalgh, 187-212.<\/p>\n

Kay Kaufman Shelemay. \u201cMusical Communities: Rethinking the Collective in Music.\u201d Journal of the American Musicological Society<\/em>, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Summer 2011): 349- 390.<\/p>\n

Week 5 \/ Feb 26 — Mass Culture\u2019s New Musical Publics
\n<\/strong>Middleton, Richard. \u201c\u2018Roll Over Beethoven\u2019: Sites and Soundings on the Music-Historical Map.\u201d In Studying Popular Music<\/em>, 3-33 (esp 3-16). Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1990.<\/p>\n

Suisman, David. \u201cPrologue,\u201d \u201cWhen Songs Became a Business,\u201d and \u201cThe Musical Soundscape of Modernity.\u201d In Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music<\/em>, 1-54, 240-72. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. <\/p>\n

Gitelman, “The Phonograph’s New Media Publics.” In The Sound Studies Reader<\/em>, ed. Jonathan Sterne, 283-303. New York: Routledge, 2012.<\/p>\n

Hilmes, “Radio and the Imagined Community” In The Sound Studies Reader<\/em>, ed. Jonathan Sterne, 351-62. New York: Routledge, 2012.<\/p>\n

Week 6 \/ March 5 — Aural Public Spheres
\n<\/strong>Hirshkind, Charles. “Cassette Sermons, Aural Modernities, and the Islamic Revival in Cairo.” In The Sound Studies Reader<\/em>, ed. Jonathan Sterne, 54-69. New York: Routledge, 2012.<\/p>\n

Ochoa Gautier, Ana Mar\u00eda. “Social Transculturation, Epistemologies of Purification and the Aural Public Sphere in Latin America.” In The Sound Studies Reader<\/em>, ed. Jonathan Sterne, 388-404. New York: Routledge, 2012.<\/p>\n

Byron Dueck. “Public and Intimate Sociability in First Nations and M\u00e9tis Fiddling.” Ethnomusicology<\/em> Vol. 51, No. 1 (Winter 2007): 30-63.<\/p>\n

Week 7 \/ March 12 — Racial Authenticity as Public Form
\n<\/strong>Radano, Ronald. “Music, Race, and the Fields of Public Culture.” In The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction<\/em>, eds. Clayton, Herbert, and Middleton, 308-316. New York: Routledge, 2012. <\/p>\n

Gilroy, Paul. \u201c\u2018After the Love Has Gone\u2019: Bio-Politics and Etho-Politics in the Black Public Sphere.\u201d In The Black Public Sphere<\/em>, ed. The Black Public Sphere Collective, 53-80. Univ. of Chicago Press, 1995. <\/p>\n

Diawara, Manthia. \u201cHomeboy Cosmopolitan.\u201d In In Search of Africa<\/em>, 237-78. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.<\/p>\n

Novak, David. \u201cCosmopolitanism, Remediation, and the Ghost World of Bollywood.\u201d Cultural Anthropology<\/em> 25:1 (2010): 40-72.<\/p>\n

Week 8 \/ March 19<\/strong> \t(No class \u2013 Spring Recess)<\/p>\n

Week 9 \/ March 26 — Counterpublics
\n<\/strong>Warner, Michael. Publics and Counterpublics<\/em>. Brooklyn: Zone Books, 2002. (p. 1-188)<\/p>\n

Bickford, Tyler. \u201cThe New \u2018Tween\u2019 Music Industry: The Disney Channel, Kidz Bop and an Emerging Childhood Counterpublic.\u201d Popular Music<\/em> 31\/3 (October 2012): 417\u201336. <\/p>\n

Week 10 \/ April 2 — Networked Publics (part 1)
\n<\/strong>Castells, Manuel. \u201cCommunication, Power and Counter-power in the Network Society.\u201d International Journal of Communication<\/em> 1 (2007): 238-266.<\/p>\n

Ito, Mizuko. \u201cIntroduction<\/a>.\u201d In Networked Publics<\/em>, ed. Varnelis, 1-14. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008.<\/p>\n

Varnelis, Kazys. \u201cThe Meaning of Network Culture<\/a>.\u201d In Networked Publics<\/em>, ed. Varnelis, 145-64. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008.<\/p>\n

Week 11 \/ April 9 — Networked Publics (part 2)
\n<\/strong>Benkler, Yochai. \u201cEmergence of the Networked Public Sphere.\u201d In The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom<\/em>, 212-72. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.<\/p>\n

boyd, danah, “Social Network Sites as Networked Publics: Affordances, Dynamics, and Implications.” In A Networked Self<\/em>, ed. Papacharissi, 39-58. New York: Routledge, 2011.<\/p>\n

Week 12 \/ April 16 — Publics & Social Media
\n<\/strong>Baym, Nancy & danah boyd. \u201cSocially Mediated Publicness.\u201d Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media<\/em> 56:3(2012): 320-329.<\/p>\n

Marwick, Alice and danah boyd. \u201cI Tweet Honestly, I Tweet Passionately: Twitter Users, Context Collapse, and the Imagined Audience.\u201d New Media & Society<\/em>, 7 July 2010: 1-20.<\/p>\n

Crawford, Kate. \u201cFollowing You: Disciplines of Listening in Social Media.\u201d In The Sound Studies Reader<\/em>, ed. Jonathan Sterne, 79-90. New York: Routledge, 2012.<\/p>\n

Sterne, Jonathan. \u201cThe MP3 as Cultural Artifact.\u201d New Media & Society<\/em> 8:5 (2006): 825\u2013842.<\/p>\n

Week 13 \/ April 23 — Precarious Publics & Platform Politricks
\n<\/strong>Dean, Jodi. “Why the Net is not a Public Sphere.” Constellations<\/em> Vol. 10, No. 1 (2003): 95-112. <\/p>\n

Gillespie, Tarleton. \u201cThe Politics of \u2018Platforms.\u2019\u201d New Media & Society<\/em> Vol. 12, No. 3 (2010): 347-64.<\/p>\n

Kelty, Christopher. \u201cPreface: Crowds and Clouds<\/a>.\u201d LIMN<\/em> 2 (March 2012). <\/p>\n

Gillespie, Tarleton. \u201cCan an Algorithm be Wrong?<\/a>\u201d LIMN<\/em> 2 (March 2012). <\/p>\n

Droitcour, Brian. “Public Spaces<\/a>.” The New Inquiry<\/em>, October 29, 2012. \t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Week 14 \/ April 30 — Class presentations
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