Collected Readings - Music 109

(numbered to indicate order of use)


  1. Reisman, David. "Listening to Popular Music." In Frith, Simon and Andrew Goodman, eds.On Record: Rock, Pop, and the Written Word. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990.
  2. Adorno, Theodore. "On Popular Music." (1941) In Frith, Simon and Andrew Goodman, eds.On Record: Rock, Pop, and the Written Word. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990
  3. McClary, Susan and Robert Walser. "Star Making Sense! Musicology Wrestles with Rock." (1980) In Frith, Simon and Andrew Goodman, eds.On Record: Rock, Pop, and the Written Word. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990, pp. 277-292.
  4. Chapple, Steve and Reebee Garofalo. "Black Roots, White Fruits: Racism in the Music Industry," Rock 'n' Roll is Here to Pay. Chicago: Nelson Hall, 1977. 231-268.
  5. Ventura, Michael. "Hear That Long Snake Moan," Shadow Dancing in the USA. Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc. (St. Martins Press), 1985, 103-162.
  6. Straw, Will. "Characterizing Rock Music Culture." In Frith, Simon and Andrew Goodman, eds.On Record: Rock, Pop, and the Written Word. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990.
  7. Bayton, Mayvis. "How Women Become Musicians." In Frith, Simon and Andrew Goodman, eds.On Record: Rock, Pop, and the Written Word. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990.
  8. Cateforis, Theo and Elena Humphreys. "Construction of Communities and Identities: Riot Grrl NYC" in Lornell, Kip and Anne K. Rasmussen, eds. Musics of Multicultural America. New York: Schirmer Books (Simon & Schuster Macmillan), 1997, 317-342.
  9. Dyer, Dick. "In Defense of Disco." In Frith, Simon and Andrew Goodman, eds.On Record: Rock, Pop, and the Written Word. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990.
  10. Hebdige, Dick. "Style as Homology & Signifying Practice." In Frith, Simon and Andrew Goodman, eds.On Record: Rock, Pop, and the Written Word. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990.
  11. Grossberg, Larry. "Is there Rock after Punk?" In Frith, Simon and Andrew Goodman, eds.On Record: Rock, Pop, and the Written Word. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990.
  12. Kalpan, E. Ann "Conclusion: MTV, Postmodernism and the televisual apparatus," Rocking Around the Clock. New York and London: Routledge, 1987, 143-153.
  13. (Plato) "Plato's Musical Idealism." In Weiss, Piero and Richard Taruskin, Music in the Western World. New York: Schirmer Books, 1983, 6-10.
  14. Quintillian. "The Kindhsip of Music and Rhetoric." In Weiss, Piero and Richard Taruskin, Music in the Western World.. New York: Schirmer Books, 1983, 10-15.
  15. Reynolds, Simon. "Rave Culture: Living Dream or Living Death?" In Redhead, Steve, ed. The Clubcultures Reader. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, Ltd., 1997, 102-111.
  16. Taylor, Tim. "Popular Musics and Globalization," Global Pop. New York and London: Routledge, 1997, 1-38.
  17. Frith, Simon. "Last Words: The Fans Speak." In Frith, Simon and Andrew Goodman, eds.On Record: Rock, Pop, and the Written Word. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990.