As of today, March 8th, 2010, I am officially on “Spring Break” in the sunny locale of the University of Pennsylvania Museum Archives. I am there to collect research on Watson Kintner. I began this stuff about five years ago. I have had the same, poorly written biographical passage up for far too long. In …
GENERAL/OPEN SOURCE: MIT OpenCourseWare: Free Online Course Materials http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm University of Michigan Open Source Course Materials https://files.umms.med.umich.edu/public/web-down.html COMMUNICATIONS, PRODUCTION: Introduction to Media Production, Webster University, 2007, Bill Barrett http://www.webster.edu/~barrettb/courses/mediaproduction.htm Television Production: A Free, Interactive Course in Studio and Field Production, 1996-2009, Ron Whittaker http://www.cybercollege.com/tvp_ind.htm
In an attempt to avoid those “what were those books that I wanted to get?” moments, here are two books I would like to purchase. Collins, Nicolas. Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking, 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge, 2009. 978-0-415-99873-4 Holmes, Thom. Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music and Culture, 3rd Edition. New …
I just finished putting the actual pages into the dissertation’s table of contents. Here it is: TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION. AMATEUR MUSICIAN NARRATIVE: THE FACTUAL, FILMIC, FICTIONAL, AND FABRICATED - 1 The Amateur - 10 Popular music on film and film on popular music - 17 Chapters - 24 CHAPTER I. Inauthentic Success/Authentic Obscurity: …