Class Schedule

Week 1

• Tuesday, August 27th: introductions, course policies, etc.
• Thursday, August 29th: Foundations 1: Perspectives on Listening

Week 2

• Tuesday, September 3rd: Foundations 2: John Cage
• Thursday, September 5th: Foundations 3: a Crash Course in Semiotics / the Grain of the Voice / Pleasure vs. Bliss

Week 3

• Tuesday, September 10th:  Walt Whitman
• Thursday, September 12th: Jazz Poetry 1: Hughes, Moten, Ellis, Mingus/Shepherd

Week 4

• Tuesday, September 17th: Jazz Poetry 2: Kerouac, Baraka, Patchen, Nordine, Kaufman
• Thursday, September 19th: A Crash Course in Audio Editing

Week 5

• Tuesday, September 24th: Cut-Ups / Iteration 1: Burroughs / Gysin
• Thursday, September 26th: Cut-Ups / Iteration 2: Stein, Giorno, Eno, Bernstein, Padgett, Warhol

Week 6

• Tuesday, October 1st: Collage: Bernstein, Berrigan, Hills, EBN, Evolution Control Committee
• Thursday, October 3rd: Transcription 1:  Welch / Kerouac 

Week 7

• Tuesday, October 8th: No Class — Fall Reading Day
• Thursday, October 10th: Transcription 2: Ginsberg / Myles

Week 8

• Tuesday, October 15th: Transcription 3: Goldsmith, Cotner/Fitch, Kupferberg
• Thursday, October 17th: Midterm Project due

Week 9

• Tuesday, October 22nd: Projective Verse: Olson, Creeley, Blackburn, et al.
• Thursday, October 24th: Song 1: Ginsberg/Blake, Adam, Bernstein, Koch/Ginsberg

Week 10

• Tuesday, October 29th: Song 2: Fugs, Sanders' "Amazing Grace," Brown, Carroll
• Thursday, October 31st: Performance 1: Mac Low / Tardos, Sontag

Week 11

• Tuesday, November 5th: Performance 2: Weiner / Waldman
• Thursday, November 7th: Performance 3: Talk: Antin, Cage, Anderson, Ranaldo

Week 12

• Tuesday, November 12th: Performance 4: Multivocality: Ashbery/Lauterbach, Howe/Grubbs, Bernstein, Velvet Underground
• Thursday, November 14th: Performance 5: Performed texts: Grenier, Brautigan, Ono, Brecht, Robson

Week 13

• Tuesday, November 19th: Chant/Litany: Ginsberg, Lindsay, Rothenberg
• Thursday, November 21st: Sound and Subversion 1: Asemic Writing: Tzara, Schwitters, Rothenberg, Bernstein, Melnick

Week 14

• Tuesday, November 26th: Sound and Subversion 2: N. America: Bök, Nichol, the Four Horsemen, Reich, Lucier
• Thursday, November 28th: No Class — Thanksgiving

Week 15

• Tuesday, December 3rd: Sound and Subversion 3: Europe: Bergvall, Blonk, cheek, et al.
• Thursday, December 5th: Sound and Subversion 4: Homophonic/Homolinguistic Translation, Mondegreens, etc.

Final: Date TBD