CS 400U

This course explores the development of digitally-based technologies of sound production, distribution, reception, and archiving, and how the socio-technical affordances of these new sound technologies fostered the emergence of new cultural practices of sociality and community, particularly in the fields of popular music and radio. Specific attention will be paid to the convergence of radio and the internet over the past thirty years, and how this convergence has been manifested in the development of new platforms for distribution and circulation of sound creations, such as iTunes, Spotify, Bandcamp, Soundcloud, and Mixcloud, as well as new aural practices of radio such as podcasting.