Comm 141 Selected Readings

Spring 2001

Diane Ackerman
A Natural History of the Senses
New York, Vintage Books
1991
Pp 173-225


Stanley Alten
Audio in Media (4th Edition)
Belmont, CA, Wadsworth
1994
Pp. 13-49


Bruce Lindsay (Ed.)
Acoustics: Historical and Philosophical Development
Stroudsburg, PA, Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross, Inc
1973

        Aristotle
        De Anima (and) De Audibilibus
        In Lindsay; Acoustics: Historical . . . 
        Pp. 21-24
        
        Vitruvius
        Acoustics of the Theater
        In Lindsay; Acoustics: Historical . . . 
        Pp. 25-33
        

David T. McFarland
Contemporary Radio Programming Stategies
Hillsdale, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
1990
Pp. 23-54

Luigi Russolo (Translated by Barclay Brown)
The Art of Noises
Monographs in Musicology No. 6
New York, Pendragon Press
1986
Pp. 1-21 (introduction by Barclay Brown), 23-30, 37-40, 41-48


Neil Strauss (Ed.)
Radiotext(e)
New York, Semiotext(e)
1993

        Rudolph Arnheim
        In Praise of Blindness
        In Strauss; Radiotext(e) 
        Pp. 20-28
        George Orwell
        Poetry and the Microphone
        In Strauss; Radiotext(e) 
        Pp. 165-171
        Bertolt Brecht
        The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication
        In Strauss; Radiotext(e) 
        Pp. 15-17
        
        Velimir Khlebnikov
        The Radio of the Future
        In Strauss; Radiotext(e) 
        Pp. 32-35
        
        John Corbett
        Radio Dada Manifesto (An Excoriation with Six Histories)
        In Strauss; Radiotext(e) 
        Pp. 71-84
        
        Muzak
        The Ergonomy of Music
        In Strauss; Radiotext(e) 
        Pp. 176-177
        
        Theodor Adorno
        A Social Critique of Radio Music
        In Strauss; Radiotext(e) 
        Pp. 272-279
        
        Helen Thorington
        The Noise of the Needle
        In Strauss; Radiotext(e) 
        Pp. 178-180
        
        Arnold Schoenberg
        The Radio
        In Strauss; Radiotext(e) 
        Pp. 280-282
        
        Tim Wilson
        Acoustic Architecture
        In Strauss; Radiotext(e) 
        Pp. 283-285
        
        
Elisabeth Weis and John Belton (Eds.)
Film Sound: Theory and Practice
New York, Columbia University Press
1985

        Mary Ann Doane
        Ideology and Practice of Sound Editing and Mixing
        In Weis and Belton; Film Sound: Theory . . .
        Pp 54-62
        
        John Belton
        Technology and Aesthetics of Film Sound
        In Weis and Belton; Film Sound: Theory . . .
        Pp 63-72
        
        Lindley Hanlon
        Sound in Bresson's Mouchette
        In Weis and Belton; Film Sound: Theory . . .
        Pp 323 - 331
        
        Bela Balazs
        Theory of the Film: Sound
        In Weis and Belton; Film Sound: Theory . . .
        Pp. 116-125


Allen S. Weiss (Guest Editor)
The Drama Review: The Journal of Performance Studies
Experimental Sound and Radio
Volume 40 Number 3, Fall 1996

        Susan Stone
        Cat's Cradle
        In Weiss; The Drama Review
        Pp. 58-59
        
        Joe Milutis
        Radiophonic Ontologies and the Avant-garde
        In Weiss; The Drama Review
        Pp. 63-79
        
        Toni Dove
        Casual Workers, Hallucinations, and Appropriate Ghosts
        In Weiss; The Drama Review
        Pp. 131-134
        Gregory Whitehead
        Radio Play is No Place
        In Weiss; The Drama Review
        Pp. 96-101
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