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Sound, Noise, Music units.
From here through the dragons . . .
W, March 21 Sound Unit Intro or, From Here Through Dragons . . .
Listening: Barthes, Roland. 2011. Listening. In Responsibility of Forms, 19.
March 26-30 Spring Break II M, April 2
Listening: Ihde, Don. 1971. A Philosopher Listens. Journal of Aesthetic Education 5 (July): 19.
Ihde, Don. "The Auditory Field" (chap 6) in Listening and Voice: Phenomenologies of
Sound
W, April 4 Sound, Space, Time:
Corbin, Alain. "Identity, Bells, and the Nineteenth-Century French Village. In Hearing History: a Reader. University of Georgia Press 2004.
LaBelle, Brandon. Underground, Busking, Acoustmatics, and the Echo. In Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life 2010.
M, April 9
Sound, Space, Time: Feld, Steven. Waterfalls of Song an Acoustemology of Place Resounding in Bosavi, Papea
New Guinea. In Senses of Place, 2011 W, April 11
What is Noise and Who Says So? Bailey, Peter. "Breaking the Sound Barrier" in Hearing History: a Reader. University of
Georgia Press 2004. Cohen, Jeffrey J. Kyte Oute Yugilment: An Introduction to Medieval Noise. Exemplaria
16.2. 2004.
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F, April 13 Paper proposal due
M, April 16 Paper proposal meetings during class W, April 18
What is Noise and Who Says So? Schwartz, Hillel. "Phenomenologicals" in Making Noise : from Babel to the big bang &
beyond. Brooklyn, NY Cambridge, Mass: Zone Books Distributed by MIT Press, 2011. M, April 23
First draft of final essay due for conferences W, April 25
Symposium Day no class F, April 27
Six-Hour Composition by Nikolaus Gerszewski. Really. Emery Center M, April 30 Buffer Day W, May 2
DUE: 2nd Draft of Paper Peer workshop (upload to Bb, 2 hard copies in class) M, May 7 (Finals week)
DUE: Final Draft (upload to Bb, hard copy to Johnson or Pane)