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Music
and Communication Jonathan Sterne, Department of Communication This class explores the centrality of communication
and media to contemporary musical practice and experience, and the
centrality of music to modern forms of communication and media. Over
the past decade, there has been growing interest among scholars of
music in questions of communication. This can be seen in the turn toward
media studies among some ethnomusicologists, and the "cultural turn"
in the New Musicology. At the same time, communication scholars have
continued
to struggle with the question of music as a type of communication that
does not easily conform to linguistic or sender-receiver models of
communication. Music also cuts across the standard categories of media
studies and often falls through its cracks. Among some communication
scholars, music remains a denigrated object despite its centrality
both to the experience of modern life and the vast industrial and technological
complex of the mass media.
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