• Amanda Petrusich, ‘Against Chill: Apathetic Music to Make Spreadsheets to’, New Yorker (10 April 2019)
• Audio: ‘Why Lo-Fi Is the Perfect Background Music’ Switched on Pop (19 May 2020)

• Video: ‘How J Dilla Humanized His MPC3000’, Vox Earworm (6 December 2017)

In Class

1. Attendance
2. Small Group Huddles
3. Q&A: What do we lose when we ‘use’ music, as opposed to listening to it? 
4. Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time: Slight Return (Guest Speaker)

• Joan Morgan, ‘Hip-Hop Feminist’, in Forman and Neal (2012)