Prep
- Amanda Petrusich, ‘Against Chill: Apathetic Music to Make Spreadsheets to’, New Yorker (10 April 2019). keywords: active listening; ambient music; chill; Chillhop; mindful listening; mumble rap; purposeful listening (‘The idea of purposeful listening—which is to say, merely listening—is becoming increasingly discordant with the way that music is sold to us’); SoundCloud rap; vibe.
- Audio: ‘Why Lo-Fi Is the Perfect Background Music’ Switched on Pop (19 May 2020)
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Video: ‘How J Dilla Humanized His MPC3000’, Vox Earworm (6 December 2017)
In Class
- Attendance
- Q&A
- Reading Notes for Next Time
- Interviews: Andrew Nosnitsky’, lebronjames.com (August 2018)
- Audio: ‘Young Thug Gets His Due, But Is It Too Late?’, Popcast (6 September 2019). Jon Caramanica covers all things Thugger with our old friend Andrew Nosnitsky.