ENG 496
Course Schedule

Week One: Introduction
W 8.23
In-class discussion and assignment.

Week Two: How to Listen, How to Write
M 8.28
Reading: Bull and Black, "Introduction: Into Sound" (ACR, 1)
Ree, "Sound and Substance"

W 8.30
Reading: Schafer "Open Ears" (ACR, 25)
Ihde "Auditory Imagination" (ACR, 61)

Week Three:
M 9.4
Labor Day, No Class

W 9.6
Reading: Mathews "The Ear and How it Works" and "The Auditory Brain"
Schwartz, "The Indefensible Ear: A History" (ACR, 487)
Assignment 1 Due: Aural/Visual

Week Four: Soundscapes
M 9.11
Reading: Schafer, Chapters 1 & 2

W 9.13
Reading: Schafer, Chapters 3 & 4

Week Five:
M 9.18
Reading: Corbin "Auditory Markers of the Village" (ACR, 117)
Tonkis "Aural Postcards" (ACR, 303)

W 9.20
Reading: Schafer, Chapters 5 & 6
Assignment 2 Due: SoundWalk/SoundScape

Week Six: Histories/Anthropologies of Sound
M 9.25
Reading:"Tuning into London" Bruce R. Smith (ACR, 127)
"Listening to the Heard Worlds of Antebellum America" Mark M. Smith (ACR, 137)

W 9.27
Reading: Picker, "The Soundproof Study: Victorian Professional Identity and Urban Noise"

Week Seven:
M 10.2
Reading: Feld, "A Rainforest Acoustemology" (ACR, 223)
Hirschkind, "Hearing Modernity"

W 10.4
Reading: Bull "Soundscapes of the Car" (ACR, 357)
Brewster, "Geneva By-Pass" and Zeug Design, "Freeway as Instrument"

Fall Break: 10.7-10.11

Week Eight
W 10.11
Last day to withdraw with a W

Week Nine
M 10.16
Midterm Review

W 10.18
Midterm

Week Ten: Music Theory and Study
M 10.23
Reading: Schafer, Chapter 7
Gilroy, "Between the Blues and the Blues Dance" (ACR, 381)

W 10.25
Reading: Kahn, "The Sound of Music" (ACR, 77)
Sharma, "The Sounds of Alterity" (ACR, 417)

Week Eleven:
M 10.30
Reading: Storr, "Origins and Collective Functions"
Berland, "Locating Listening"

W 11.1
Reading: Doyle, "Blue Shadows on the Trail"
Assignment 3 Due: Writing about Music

Week Twelve: Sound Technology 1
M 11.6
Reading: Katz, "Aesthetics out of Exigency: Violin Vibrato and the Phonograph"

R 11.8
Reading: Altman, "The Material Heterogeneity of Recorded Sound"

Week Thirteen: Sound Technology 2
M 11.13
Reading: Taylor, "Men, Machines, and Music in the Space Age 1950s"
Hindley, "Keyboards, Crankshafts, and Communication: The Musical Mindset of Western Technology"

W 11.15
Reading: Filmer, "Songtime" (ACR, 91)
Connor, "The Help of Your Good Hands" (ACR, 67)

Week Fourteen: Sound Technology 3
M 11.20
Film Screening
Reading: Chion "Projections of Sound on Image"
Tacchi, "Nostalgia and Radio Sound" (ACR, 281)
Thesis and Annotated Bibliography due.

11.21-11.27 Thanksgiving Vacation

Week Fifteen
M 11.27
No Class.

W 11.29
5-10 page first draft due.

Week Sixteen
M 12.4
Presentations.

W 12.6
Last Day of Classes
Presentations.

Final Draft Due (in front of my office): 12.13