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    This document provides a reading list for an English course on music, networks, and digital media. It lists required readings that are available from the CU Bookstore, online, or through the course reserves at the Norlin Library circulation desk and music library. The readings include books, essays, blog posts, music, and videos covering topics like sampling, copyright, and the impact of digital technologies on music and culture.

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    ENGL 3116-001: TOPICS IN ADVANCED THEORY: MUSIC, NETWORKS, & DIGITAL MEDIA

    TEXT LIST

    AVAILABLE AT
    CU BOOK STORE | UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO | 36 UCB (1669 EUCLID AVE) | BOULDER, CO 80309-0036
    (303) 492-3445 | HTTP://CUBOOKS.COLORADO.EDU/

    • Attali, Jacques. Noise: The Political Economy of Music. Trans. Brian Massumi. Minneapolis and
    London: U of Minnesota P, 1985.
    • Levy, Steven. The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness. New
    York: Simon and Schuster, 2006.
    • Miller, Paul D. aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid. Rhythm Science. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT
    UP, 2004.
    • ---, ed. Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT UP,
    2008.
    • Wark, McKenzie. A Hacker Manifesto. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard UP, 2004.

    AVAILABLE ON CULEARN

    • Deleuze, Gilles: “Postscript on Control Societies”


    • Galloway, Alexander and Eugene Thacker: from The Exploit
    • Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri: from Empire
    • Knopper, Steve: from Appetite for Self Destruction
    • Kusek, David and Gerd Leonhard: from The Future of Music
    • Marclay, Christian and Yasunao Tone: “Record, CD, Analog”
    • McLuhan, Marshall: “The Medium is the Message”
    • Roszak, Theodore: from The Making of a Counterculture
    • Turner, Fred: from From Counterculture to Cyberculture

    AVAILABLE ONLINE
    Reading
    • Critical Art Ensemble: from Electronic Civil Disobedience and Other Unpopular Ideas. (book chapter;
    direct link to PDF): http://www.critical-art.net/books/ecd/ecd2.pdf; (to download other chapters)
    http://www.critical-art.net/books/ecd/
    • Downhill Battle. Blog posts on Grey Tuesday (read in order): http://downhillbattle.org/?p=219,
    http://downhillbattle.org/?p=223, http://downhillbattle.org/?p=227, http://downhillbattle.org/?p=226,
    http://downhillbattle.org/?p=228, http://downhillbattle.org/?p=229
    • Harvey, Eric: “The Social History of the mp3” (essay; note that the essay is several “pages” long and
    that the link is to the first page) http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/7689-the-social-history-of-the-
    mp3/
    • Lessig, Lawrence: from Codev2 (book; direct link to PDF) http://pdf.codev2.cc/Lessig-Codev2.pdf
    (read chapters 1 and 4)
    • Sterne, Jonathan: “The mp3 as Cultural Artifact” (essay; direct link to PDF)
    http://sterneworks.org/mp3.pdf
    Music/Video
    • Aphex Twin: “Come to Daddy” (video/song) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Az_7U0-cK0
    ENGL 3116-001: TOPICS IN ADVANCED THEORY: MUSIC, NETWORKS, & DIGITAL MEDIA
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    • ---. “Windowlicker” (video/song) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoJeiRVnlu8


    • Beatles, The: “Revolution” (video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrkwgTBrW78
    • Buffalo Springfield: “For What it's Worth” (video/song) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5M_Ttstbgs
    • Danger Mouse: The Grey Album (album; available as BitTorrent download; also available at Norlin
    reserves as a CD) http://illegal-art.org/audio/grey.html; to download individuals mp3s:
    http://stereo.lu/grey/
    • Dylan, Bob: “The Times They are a-Changin'” (video/song)
    http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9vwxn_the-times-they-are-a-changin_music
    • Eminem: “Mosh” (video/song) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M9MTle-8AM
    • Girl Talk: Feed the Animals (album; available to download at any price you choose; to download for
    free choose “mp3s” and enter $0; also available at Norlin reserves as a CD) http://illegal-
    art.net/shop#release117
    • Green Day: “American Idiot” (video/song) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkmEZs_Kcms
    • “Grey Video, The” (video/song) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zJqihkLcGc
    • “History of the Amen Break” (video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac
    • Kleptones, The: A Night at the Hip-Hopera (album; available as direct download [mp3] or in several
    formats via BitTorrent; also available at Norlin reserves as a CD)
    http://www.kleptones.com/pages/downloads_hiphopera.html
    • Lennon, John: “Imagine” (video/song) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b7qaSxuZUg
    • Ministry: “Jesus Built My Hotrod” (video/song) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXCh9OhDiCI
    • ---. “NWO” (video/song) http://www.myspace.com/video/vid/4822262
    • nine inch nails: Slip, The (album; available as free download in several formats if you register with the
    site; also available at Norlin reserves as a CD) http://theslip.nin.com/
    • Run DMC: (video/song) “King of Rock” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXzWlPL_TKw
    • ---. “Walk This Way” (video/song) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B_UYYPb-Gk&feature=channel

    AVAILABLE ON COURSE RESERVE, NORLIN CIRCULATION DESK

    Music (each available as an individual CD; I strongly recommend downloading any CDs that
    are available for free and legal download, as listed above)
    • Danger Mouse: The Grey Album
    • djBC: Glassbreaks
    • ---. Wu Orleans
    • Girl Talk: Feed the Animals
    • Kleptones, The: A Night at the Hip-Hopera
    • Moby: Play
    • Negativland: No Business
    • nine inch nails: Pretty Hate Machine
    • ---. Slip, The.
    • ---. Year Zero
    ENGL 3116-001: TOPICS IN ADVANCED THEORY: MUSIC, NETWORKS, & DIGITAL MEDIA
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    • Public Enemy: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back


    • Refused: The Shape of Punk to Come
    • Sex Pistols, The: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols

    AVAILABLE ON COURSE RESERVE, MUSIC LIBRARY

    Music (each available as an individual CD)


    • Beastie Boys, The: Paul's Boutique
    • Public Enemy: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

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