This class takes artists as working people and examines the production of commercial popular music as a set of work processes, focusing on legal, discursive, technological, and economic contexts. We explore the relations of performers—especially recording artists—to their work, their personae, their audiences, and their intellectual property.

Antirequisite(s): the former MIT 3439F if taken in 2014-15, the former MIT 3439G in 2015-16 or 2016-17.

Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.