Course Resources

• Bohl, Rebecca E. – Blog: http://seanachais.motime.com
• Bonaime, Ross C. – Bibliography:
• Carter, Sarah B. – Blog: http://scarterb.blogspot.com
• Castillo, Ricardo – Blog: http://ricocastillo.motime.com
• Dierker, Robert A. – Bibliography:
• Dodge, Joshua B. – Blog: http://soulsurvive.wordpress.com
• Fells, Patrick M. – Blog: http://patman85.motime.com/
• Fisher, Kevin J. – Blog: http://fisher334research.motime.com
• Gibson, Chance C. – Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/apimpnamedshadez
• Greene, David T. – Blog: http://davydangerous.motime.com
• Hahn, Kenneth L. – Blog: http://djwheelz.livejournal.com
• Jones, Lucy M. – Blog: http://joshgrobanfansite.blogspot.com
• Ko, Brian D. –
• Maurizi, Cristina K. – Bibliography:
• Miller, Joshua W. – Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/chelseamanor
• Minor, Andrew G. – Blog: http://kidzwithgunz.wordpress.com
• Molleda, Diana –
• Munoz, Camille N. – Blog: http://camillesbeatlesresearch.motime.com
• Perrow, Bradley M. – Blog: http://acousticcreation.motime.com
• Piszcz, Justin M. – Bibliography:
• Portner, Mary A. – Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/metalmarinator
• Robinson, Sarah – Blog: http://sweetlithium9.livejournal.com
• Rushing, Clifford L. – Blog: http://sportanthems.tumblr.com
• Sajbel, Jessica A. – Blog: http://satisfythesoul.motime.com
• Stofocik, Kevin B. – Blog: http://kstofoc1.blogspot.com
• Vetsch, Crystal R. – Blog:

American Hardcore: The History of American Punk Rock, 1980-1986. Dir. Paul Rachman. Sony Pictures, 2005. (DVD 2007)

And Ya Don’t Stop: 30 Years of Hip Hop. Dir. Richard Lowe, Dana Heinz Perry. 2004. (not on DVD but Check youtube, lots of clips there)

Another State of Mind. Dir. Peter Stuart (II), Adam Small. Time Bomb, 1984. (DVD 2004)

The Decline of Western Civilization (Part I, II, and III). Dir. Penelope Spheeris.

End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones. Dir. Michael Gramaglia, Jim Fields. Rhino/Wea, 2005. (DVD 2005)

Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme. Dir. Kevin Fitzgerald. Palm Pictures, 2000. (DVD 2005)

The Filth and the Fury: A Sex Pistols Film. Dir. Julien Temple. New Line Films/Sunset Home Visual Entertainment, 2000. (DVD 2005)

Get Thrashed: The Story of Thrash Metal. Dir. Rick Ernst. Lightyear Entertainment, 2008. (DVD September 16, 2008) (Trailer)

Global Metal. Dir. Sam Dunn. Seville Pictures, 2008. (DVD soon to be relased?)

Heavy Metal Parking Lot. Dir. Jeff Krulik, John Heyn. Film Baby, 1986. (DVD 2007)

Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes. Dir. Byron Hurt. PPS/Independent Lens, 2007. (full episode)

Made in Sheffield: The Birth of Electronic ‘Pop’. Dir. Eve Wood. Plexifilm, 2004. (DVD 2005)

Metal: A Headbanger's Journey. Dir. Sam Dunn, Jessica Joy Wise. Warner, 2006. (DVD 2006)

N.Y.H.C. Dir. Frank Pavich. Halo 8, 2000. (DVD March 25, 2008)

OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music. Ellipsis Arts, 2005. (DVD 2006)

Punk: Attitude. Dir. Don Letts. Capital Entertainment, 2005. (DVD 2005)

Slingshot Hip Hop. Dir. Jackie Reem. Salloum, 2008.

Soul Deep: The History of Black Popular Music. Dir. Sebastian Barfield and Kate Broome. BBC, 2005. (alt, some clips)

The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder: Punk and New Wave. Shout! Factory, 2006. VH1’s Heavy the Story of Metal. Dir. Mike Warren. 2006. (not on DVD but Check youtube, lots of clips there)

Working Class Rock Star. Dir. Justin McConnell. Unstable Ground/Cinema Epoch, 2008. (DVD Nov. 11 2008) (doc about record companies screwing artists)

• Computer Music Journal
• Enculturation: Special Issue on Writing, Music, Culture
• Journal of Popular Music Studies (alt)
• Journal of the Society for American Music
• Leonardo Music Journal (alt, muse)
• Music and Letters (muse)
• Music and Politics
• Music Theory Online (alt)
• Popular Music and Society (findararticles)
• Popular Music (jstor)
• Popular Musicology Online
• Radical Musicology
• Soundscapes: Online Journal on Media Culture

• Australian Journal of Cultural Studies
• Cultural Critique (muse)
• Cultural Studies
• CR: The New Centennial Review (muse)
• European Journal of Cultural Studies
• International Journal of Cultural Studies
• Journal of Youth Studies
• Media, Culture, and Society
• Postmodern Culture (muse)
• Social Text (muse)
• Social Forces: International Journal of Social Research
• Theory, Culture, and Society

• Intro to Literary and Cultural Studies: Analyzing Popular Music, Simon Joyce (English)
• Special Topics in Media Studies: The Music Industry, Amy Herzog (Media Studies)
• Songwriting and Popular Music, Stuart Robinson and Bryan Rahija (Music)
• History of Rock Music, Sonny Burnette (Music)
• Sociology of Popular Music, Dipannita Basu (Sociology)
• Intro to World Music, Michael Kaloyanides (Music)
• Rock 'n' Roll Rhetoric, Justin Tremel (Rhetoric)
• Popular Culture, Paul Mullins (Anthropology)
• Women Making Music, J. Michele Edwards (Music)
• Women in Music, Mary Natvig (Music)

• Pandora (free, personalized internet radio that helps you find new music based on your old and current favorites)
• Yahoo Music (listen to music and watch videos)
• Opsound (open source audio site)
• David Hesmondhalgh Homepage (lots of sources)
• John Covach Homepage
• David Borgo Homepage
• DJ Spooky Homepage
• Rhythm Science (free songs, youtube)
• Dance of Days
• Words, Beats, and Life (DC hip hop group: web site + journal)
• Forrest of Rhetoric (summary of rhetorical principles)
• Intro to Literary Theory (summary of theoretical approaches/schools)
• Center for Popular Music
• Musical Analysis (Wikipedia)
• SMT Popular Music Interest Group (links page, discussion list, bibliogrpahy, glossary)
• Music Theory Online
• Oxford Music Online
• Society for American Music
• Popular Music Theory
• Society for Music Theory
• International Association for the Study of Popular Music (US chapter) (links, journals, bibs)
• Music/Culture bibliography
• 33 1/3 Series by Continuum (each writer picks one album to discuss) (also see blog and subjects)
• Pop Matters (Music)
• Pitchfork (wikipedia)
• A History of Dallas Music (blog)
• Deep Ellum (Wikipedia)
• Sam Dunn interview
• Pop Music Books
• All City - Hip Hop Documentary (blog with youtube clips)
• Cuban Hio Hop Documentary (Myspace)
• Lester_Bangs (wikipedia)
• NoiseMP3.com (digital archive of noise music)
• Staalplaat (a forum for soundartists; also see blog)
• Blabber Mouth

• Motime (free server side blog site)
• Blogger (free server side blog site)
• Live Journal (free server side blog site, pay for upgrades)
• TypePad (for pay blog site)
• Blog City (for pay blog site)
• Spaces (Microsoft's foray into blogging)
• Wordpress (free blog software to download)
• Movable Type (blog software to download)

MP3 Blogs

• Music for Robots
• Fluxblog
• Christopher Porter
• Scenestars
• Said the Gramophone
• Tofu Hut
• Soul Sides
• Fat Planet
• Scissor Kick
• Moist Works
• Finger Tips
• A Reasonable Guide to Horrible Noise

Networking (RSS)

• Technorati (search engine that tracks blogs by number of links - about)
• del.icio.us - social bookmarks (online link organizing tool, also see this how-to article)
• Bloglines (a web-based RSS aggregator - free service for searching, subscribing, publishing news feeds, blogs, and web content)
• Motime blog post (how-to set up an RSS feed for your blog)
• RSS Described in Plain English (nice, simple explanation of RSS)
• Surf's Down as More Netizens Turn to RSS for Browsing (article by JD Lasica )
• Feedfinder (aggregated news feeds and podcasts from the world's major newspapers, press agencies and other online sources)
• Pluck (free online RSS site, downloadable plug-in for IE)
• How to Create an RSS Feed With Notepad, a Web Server, and a Beer
• Bloglines, Flickr, and del.icio.us make RSS delectable
• What is RSS/XML/Atom/Syndication?
• Blogging and RSS
• Say farewell to Blogs and Bookmarks and get your Furl on (Furl)
• The network is the blog
• Twitter

• Apple: iMovie
  • iLife tutorials
  • Getting Started
• iMovie Basic Tutorials
• Create an iMovie Project
• Atomic Learning
• Vermont U, Basic Tutorials
• About.com Desktop Video

Movie Maker

• Microsoft: Movie Maker
  • Getting Started
• Atomic Learning
• About.com
• Mighty Coach (basics)
• Virtual Art Room
• Video tutorials for Movie Maker

PowerPoint

• Microsoft: PPT (see tutorials down the left)
  • MS Training
  • PPT07.com
• Internet Classrooms
• About.com (also see here)
• FGCU Basics
• STT.com
• Youtube tutorials

Flash

• Adobe: Flash
  • Support tutorials
• Baycon (starts with basics)
• Teacher
• Entheos
• Kirupa
• Flash Perfection (high end stuff)
• Video Animation

• TEC Tutorials
• Mason Server (all students get free web space)
  
• STAR (Student Technology Assistance and Resources)
• Instructional Resource Center
• Information Technology Training (sign up for workshops)
• Division of Instructional Improvement and Instructional Technologies
• Electronic Publications, also see Resources and Web Development
• Multimedia Lab
• 209 syllabus, also see details and resources

Creative Media

• Thus Spoke the Spectacle (youtube)
• From Gallery to Webtext
• Errata Erratum (DJ Spooky's Duchamp inspired flash project)
• Epic 2014
• Lexia to Perplexia
• Filmtext
• Born Magazine
• Drunken Boat
• Bee Hive
• Gravity
• Power Point Art?
  PowerPoint Anthology of Literature
  PowerPoint Gettysburg Address
• Don Norman on PowerPoint
• Corporeal Landscape (Alternative Museum)
• Network Images
• Conner Contemporary Art
• Nobody Here
• Glorious Day
• Dichtung Digital (journal)
• Morpheus – an online morph program
• Critical Art Ensamble
• Austin Photo Blog
• Post Secret (an art project that conflates postcards and blogs to revel private lives publicly)

HTML

• HTML.net
• W3Schools (see intro)
• HTML Goodies
• HTML Code Tutorial
• HyperText Markup Language Home Page (how-to xhtml)
• HTML - The HyperText Markup Language (how-to links, info)
• Writing HTML
• EchoEcho
• Raggett

CSS

• W3
• Starting w/ HTML + CSS
• Ch2 Lie and Bos
• Raggett Intro
• Tips and Tricks
• W3 Schools
• Web Design Group
• CSS Beginner

Graphics

• Creative Commons (site for open copyrighted material)
• istock photo (royalty-free image archive)
• Icon Bazaar
• Barry's Clip Art Server (public domain graphics)
• clip-art.com (links to many clip art sites)
• The ShockZone (public graphics, tutorials, code)
• Web Shop
• Button Generator
• Tuttogratis (links to free image pages)
• Image Tutorials
• Photoshop Tutorials
• Basic Photoshop Elements Tutorials
• Font Freak
• 1001 Free Fonts
• Yahoo Icon Search

Color

• RGB/HEX Converter
• Non-Dithering Colors in Browsers (RGB numbers and Hex codes)
• Visibone
• Color Wheel Pro: basics
• Color Wheel Pro: meaning
• Color Wheel Pro: schemes (samples)
• Color Scheme Generator

HTML Editors

• First Page (One of the better free HTML editors) Has beginner, intermediate, advanced settings.
• NVU (a new free html editor - similar to composer)
• Trellian (open source editor)
• Amaya (open sourece/free but seems a bit tech heavy)
• Edit Plus (30 day demo version is free)
• HomeSite (free 30 day trial)
• BBedit lite (free html editor for Macs Mac no longer supports it but there are still free downloads out there. Also see this site)
• BBedit (upscale version of lite, demo version is free. Also see this site)

Tools and Open Source Software

• web tools
• open source software links
• Mega Web Tools
• Sox (sound converter/player/recorder)
• FreeRip (freeware for burning and converting sound files)
• Free PDF Creator
• Fugu (free FTP programs for Macs)
• AVG (free anti-virus program with with free tech support and upgrades)
• Trend Micro (free virus scan of your PC online)
• Open Office (free multi-platform office productivity suite)
• Serif Software (free image editing software)
• Screen hunter (screen capture freeware)
• Gimp **(free image editing software)
• Irfanview (free image viewing software, light editing)