Syllabus/achievement requirements

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€ August, Andrew. "A ‘Culture of Consolation’? Rethinking Politics in Working-class London". Historical Research 74 (2001): 193-219.

 

€ Bakker, Gerben. "Building Knowledge about the Consumer: The Emergence of Market Research in the Motion Picture Industry". Business History 45, 1 (2003): 101-127.

 

€ Bennett, Andy. "Subcultures or neo-tribes? Rethinking the relationship between youth, style and musical taste". Sociology 33, 3 (1999): 599-617.

 

€ Christopherson, Susan. "Beyond the Self-Expressive Creative Worker: An Industry Perspective on Entertainment Media". Theory, Culture and Society 25, 7-8 (2008): 73-95.

 

* Clarke, Hall, Jefferson, Roberts. “Subcultures, Cultures and Class” i Hall, Jefferson (red): Resistance through rituals: youth subcultures in post-war Britain. London 1975. S. 9-74.

 

€ Cloonan, Martin. "The production of English rock stardom in the 1950s". Popular Music History 4, 3 (2009): 271-288.

 

* De Grazia, Victoria. Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance through 20^th Century Europe. Harvard, MA: Belknap Press, 2005. S. 284-335.

 

* Eisenberg, Christiane. “Playing Fields in German Cities, 1900-2000” i Clark, Niemi, Niemelä (red.): Sport, Recreation and Green Space in the European City. Helsinki: 2009. S. 76-89.

 

* Farrer, James. Opening up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2002. S. 291-326.

 

* Gudmundsson, Gestur et al. “Brit Crit: Turning Points in British Rock Criticism 1960-1990” i Jones, Steve (red.): Pop Music and the Press. Temple University Press: 2002. S. 41-64.

 

* Havens, Timothy. “Inventing Universal Television: Global Television Fairs as Tournaments of Value” i Moeran, Brian og Pedersen, Jesper Strandgaard (red.): Negotiating Values in the Creative Industries: Fairs, Festivals and Competitive Events. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. S. 145-168.

 

€ Havens, Timothy. "‘The biggest show in the world’: race and the global popularity of The Cosby Show". Media, Culture and Society 22 (2000): 371-391.

 

* Horn, Adrian. Juke Box Britain: Americanisation and Youth Culture, 1945-60. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009. S.161-183.

 

€ Jackson, Jeffrey H. Making Jazz French. Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris. Durham: 2003. S.123-153.

 

€ Johnson, Paul. "'Conspicuous Consumption and Working-Class Culture in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain'". Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th ser., 38 (1988): 27-42.

 

€ Jones, Gareth Stedman. "Working-class Culture and Working-class Politics in London, 1870-1900: Notes on the Remaking of a Working Class". Journal of Social History 7 (1973/74): 460-508.

 

* Kealy, Edward R. “From Craft to Art: The Case of Sound Mixers and Popular Music” i Frith, Simon og Goodwin, Andrew (red.): On Record: Rock, Pop, and the Written Word. London: 1990. S. 207-220.

 

€ Kraft, James P. "Musicians in Hollywood: Work and Technological Change in Entertainment Industries, 1926-1940".Technology and Culture 35, 2 (1994): 289-314.

 

€ Lawrence, Tim. "Disco and the Queering of the Dance Floor". Cultural Studies 25, 2 (2011): 230-243.

 

€ Maase, Kaspar. "‘Americanisation’, ‘Americanness’ and ‘Americanisms’: time for a change in perspective?". Paper presented at the conference on The American Impact on Western Europe: Americanization and Westernization in Transatlantic Perspective, German Historical Institute, March 1999.

 

€ Merziger, Patrick. "Americanised, Europeanised or nationalised? The film industry in Europe under the influence of Hollywood, 1927-1968". European Review of History 20, 5 (2013):793-814.

 

* Miller, Karl Hagstrom. Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow. Durham: 2010. S. 157-186.

 

Mungham, Geoff. “Youth in Pursuit of Itself” i Idem pg Pearson (red.): Working Class Youth Culture. London: Routledge, 1976. S. 82-104.

 

* Napoli, Philip. Audience Evolution: New Technologies and the Transformation of Media Audiences. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. S.25-53.

 

€ Nathaus, Klaus . "Leisure clubs and the decline of the Weimar Republic: a reassessment". Journal of Contemporary History 45, 1 (2010): 27-50.

 

€ Nathaus, Klaus. "Popular Music in Germany 1900-1930: A Case of Americanisation? Uncovering a European Trajectory of Music Production into the Twentieth Century". European Review of History 20, 5 (2013): 755-776.

 

€ Nathaus, Klaus. "Turning Values into Revenue: The Markets and the Field of Popular Music in the US, the UK and West Germany (1940s to 1980s)". Historical Social Research 36 (2011): 136-163.

 

* Nathaus, Klaus. “Why was there a 'Rock Revolution' in Britain? Comparing the Production and Evaluation of Popular Music in Britain and West Germany, 1950-80” i Eisenberg, Christiane  og Gestrich, Andreas (red.): The Cultural Industries in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Britain and Germany Compared. Augsburg: Wißner, 2012. S. 170-186.

 

* Osgerby, Bill. “Youth Cultures in Contemporary Britain” i Addison, Paul og Jones, Harriet (red.): The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British History. Oxford: 2005. S. 127-144.

 

€ Peterson, Richard A. og Kern, Roger. "Changing Highbrow Taste: From Snob to Omnivore". American Sociological Review 61 (1996): 900-907.

 

€ Peterson, Richard A. "Why 1955? Explaining the Advent of Rock Music". Popular Music 9, 1 (1990): 97-116.

 

* Polhemus, Ted. “In the supermarket of style” i Redhead, Steve (red.): The Clubcultures Reader: Readings in Popular Cultural Studies. Oxford: 1998. S. 130-133.

 

* Rasmussen, Chris. “‘The People’s Orchestra’: Jukeboxes as the Measure of Popular Musical Taste in the 1930s and the 1940s” i Suisman, David og Strasser, Susan (red.): Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. S. 181-198.

 

Ross, Corey. Mass Media and the Making of Modern Germany: Mass Communications, Society, and Politics from the Empire to the Third Reich. Oxford: OUP, 2008. S. 303-340.

 

€ Schwarzkopf, Stefan. "From Fordist to creative economies: the de-Americanisation of European advertising cultures since the 1960s". European Review of History 20, 5 (2013): 859-880.

 

* Sewell jr., William. “The Concept(s) of Culture” i Bonnell og Hunt (red.): Beyond the Cultural Turn: New directions in the Study of Society and Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. S. 35-61.

 

* Siegfried, Detlef. “Unterstanding 1968: Youth Rebellion, Generational Change and Postindustrial Society” i Schildt, Axel og Siegfried, Detlef (red.): Between Marx and Coca-Cola: Youth Cultures in Changing European Societies, 1960-1980. New York: 2006. S. 59-81.

 

* Stahl, Matt. “Privilege and Distinction in Production Worlds: Copyright, Collective Bargaining, and Working Conditions in Media Making” i Mayer, Banks, Caldwell (red): Production Studies: Cultural Studies of Media Industries. New York: Routledge, 2009. S. 54-68.

 

€ Swidler, Ann. "Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies". American Sociological Review 51, 2 (1986): 273-286.

 

* Tebbutt, Melanie. Being Boys: Youth, Leisure and Identity in the Interwar Years. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012. S. 201-232.

 

* Todd, Selina og Young, Hilary. “Baby-boomers to ‘Beanstalkers’: Making the modern teenager in modern Britain”. Cultural and Social History 9, nr. 3 (2012): s. 451-468.

 

* Wald, Elijah. How the Beatles destroyed Rock ‘n’ Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music. Oxford: OUP, 2009. S. 230-247

 

€ Worley, Matthew. "Shot By Both Sides: Punk, Politics and the End of ‘Consensus’". Contemporary British History 26, 3 (2012): 333-354.

 

Kilder:

- Sime. "Popular Music in England". Variety, 3.3.1906: 5.

 

- Gould. "Vaudeville versus Musical Comedy". Variety 14.12.1907: 19, 65.

 

- Empire: Johnny Ray, i: The Scotsman, 10.5.1955, 5; Round the Halls: The Palladium, i: The Stage, 8.4.1954, 5.

 

- Correspondence between popular composer Irving Berlin and Dave Dreyer (head of the professional department of Irving Berlin Music) and Hilda Schneider (secretary of the New York office of Irving Berlin Music):

• Dave Dreyer to Irving Berlin, 27.4.1945, Library of Congress, Irving Berlin Collection, Box 324: Correspondence, Folder 2.

• Irving Berlin to Dave Dreyer, 4.6.1945, Library of Congress, Irving Berlin Collection, Box 324: Correspondence, Folder 2.

• Dave Dreyer to Irving Berlin, 6.2.1947, Library of Congress, Irving Berlin Collection, Box 324: Correspondence, Folder 3.

• Hilda Schneider to Irving Berlin, 22.7.1947, Library of Congress, Irving Berlin Collection, Box 317: Correspondence, Folder 3.

 

-Red Light Fever: British Session Musicians Remember the Sixties, 13.4.2006, Filene Recital Hall, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY.

 

-Recordings of panel discussion with musicologist Gordon Thompson and British session musicians Vic Flick and Andy White.

 

-Photos, newspaper article, recollections and administrative records of dance halls in Edinburgh, 1950s.

 

- Norman Mailer, The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster (1957), i: Idem, Advertisements for Myself, London: Panther 1961, 269-289.

 

-Julie Burchill, Apocalypse Now (Please), in: The Face, no. 61, May 1985, 14-16.