55-251
Music and the Media
Reading Assignments

Dr. Peter Rothbart

To select the desired reading, scroll through this index and click on the relevant citation.

Please note that all of these materials are copyrighted and are placed on this Web solely for the use by students in the current Music and the Media class.
  1. Music and the Imagination, by Aaron Copland,
    The Gifted Listener, p. 17-30

  2. Sight, Sound and Society, by David Manning-White and Richard Averson, eds.,
    Communication and the Creative Process, p. 87-91
    3. ,

  3. Media Reader, Shirley Biagi, ed.,
    Trivializing America: Entertainment, p. 17-19

  4. Media Reader Shirley Biagi, ed.,
    An Introduction to Mass Communication, p. 9-16

  5. Towards a Definition of Art, by Peter Rothbart

  6. Media Reader, Shirley Biagi, ed.,
    Is Television Shortening Our Attention Span? p 229-233

  7. Sound Effects by Simon Frith,
    Making Records, p. 89-92

  8. Facing the Music by Simon Frith,
    Top 40 Radio, p. 8-50

  9. Media Reader, Shirley Biagi, ed.,
    Radio's Unique Ability to Target and Deliver Specific Audience Segments, by Charles Peebler, p. 83-85

  10. Sound Effects by Simon Frith,
    Deciding Who Records, Deciding What is Recorded, Deciding What Reaches the Public, p. 102-117