Books (available through the bookstore or online):
- Bram Stoker, Dracula (please get the Norton Critical Edition)
- Samuel Beckett, Collected Shorter Plays
- Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood
- David Morton, Sound Recording: The Life Story of a Technology
- Selected other readings, to be made available on GauchoSpace:
- Mark Katz, excerpts from Capturing Sound
- Jonathan Sterne, excerpts from The Audible Past
- Thomas Edison, “The Phonograph and its Future”
- Raymond Williams, “Media” and “Mediation” (from Keywords)
- Friedrich Kittler, excerpts from Discourse Networks, 1800/1900
- Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
- Theodor Adorno (my boy!), “Curves of the Needle” and “The Form of the Phonograph Record“
- Art M. Blake, “Audible Citizenship and Audiomobility: Race, Technology, and CB Radio“
- Todd Avery, excerpts from Radio Modernism: Literature, Ethics, and the BBC
