Podcasting Music and Sound: An Ex-College Course
Lauria, Alexander.
2020
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Thesis (M.A.)--Tufts University, 2020.
Submitted to the Dept. of Music.
Advisor: Alessandra Campana.
Committee: Alessandra Campana, Stephan Pennington, Joseph Auner, and Howard Wolf.
Keywords: Music, Music history, and Music theory.
As a musicologist it was important to focus this course on music and musicians, but pedagogically it is about the creation ... read moreand transmission of the podcast. While primary areas of discussion changed over the course of the semester, a constant topic throughout was how to make a well-constructed podcast, or what works or doesn't work in any given podcast episode. While podcasting is gaining influence in academic settings, it has yet to breakthrough and become a staple. In order to decide the specific focus of the course I listened to a wide variety of music podcasts. It was my aim to find a topic that is relevant to the students. After a few months of entertaining and thought-provoking podcast listening I still could not make a decision. One day the answer became obvious, that the unifying content of the course should be, in fact, about music and sound podcasts. Not only would podcasts be the center of discussion throughout the semester, but the final project would be the production of a podcast instead of a paperread less - ID:
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