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What impact has mass mediation had on the way that music is made, understood, listened to, and valued? What was radio's role in the rise of 20th century authoritarian rule? How was the microphone implicated in shifting values and gender dynamics around popular music? How might we approach audiovisual mediations like music video or guitar hero as a way to refract the many and often conflicting meanings, roles and investments that music accrues? In this class, we will explore the ways that music transforms and is transformed in the process of mediation and mediatization. Thinking with and through the work of scholars across the humanities, we will trace the history of musical media and explore the ways that music assumes different roles and undergoes a series of transformations in various media contexts.