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(Image courtesy of Indiana Public Media.) https://www.kylesbarnett.org/blog/archive-fever monthly 0.5 2021-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edda21fb8b71f40bdb04b51/1595270225462-9E93OQ4MJLA1XAM3KF83/Ransom+Too+Dan+Machold+Creative+Commons+.png Blog - Archive Fever (1) - The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas Photo courtesy of Dan Machold, licensed by Creative Commons. https://www.kylesbarnett.org/blog/tag/archives monthly 0.5 https://www.kylesbarnett.org/blog/tag/media+studies monthly 0.5 https://www.kylesbarnett.org/about daily 1.0 2022-11-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edda21fb8b71f40bdb04b51/b59aa148-9ea1-4b2e-968f-72203394e7cc/kriech-higdon-photo-KB005.jpg About - My research focuses on media history, media industries & sound practices across media. I am an associate professor of media studies at Bellarmine University, where I also serve as graduate chair of the MA in Communication and MS in Digital Media programs. My BA in English and Philosophy is from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, and I have an MA in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State University. I did my PhD in Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas. Publications include “Furniture Music: The Phonograph as Furniture,” in the Journal of Popular Music Studies, “The Selznick Studio, ‘Spellbound’ and the Marketing of Film Music,’ in Music, Sound and the Moving Image, and chapters in several book anthologies. I am a former co-editor of the Velvet Light Trap, graduate editor and columnist for Flow, Antenna and In Media Res. My first book is Record Cultures: The Transformation of the U.S. Recording Industry (University of Michigan Press, 2020). Contact: Kyle Barnett, PhD Associate Professor, Media Studies Dept. of Communication Bellarmine University Louisville, KY 40205 kbarnett@bellarmine.edu Photo courtesy of Kriech-Higdon Photography. https://www.kylesbarnett.org/teaching daily 0.75 2021-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edda21fb8b71f40bdb04b51/1594605920783-IHKV5C4QMKXOAQDXQAPF/Radio+Corporation+of+America+-+published+in+Life+-+October+27%2C+1947+by+KoHoSo65++.png Teaching - Comm 226 - History of Radio and Television Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edda21fb8b71f40bdb04b51/1592966608503-LDBV2URWFIJZNQUQ99WB/352ED275-E2CB-459D-B878-219A6AF971DE.jpeg Teaching - Comm 200 - Media and Society This is an introductory course, meant as an overview of media texts, practices, identities, and industries. As the first class undergraduates take in media studies, the goal is to honor the expertise that students bring, while defamiliarizing the familiar and introducing new ways of understanding ubiquitous media in contemporary society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edda21fb8b71f40bdb04b51/1594606723830-S0YQP9NJ866NCTX03Y0W/Disco+Party+Classics+by+duncanriley+.png Teaching - Comm 342 - Special Topics: Popular Music and Media This undergraduate popular music studies class focuses on sound recording cultures and the recording industry, understood as its own industry and one deeply linked to many others. Topics also include popular music texts, genres, identities, subcultures, and mediations through both historical and emerging technologies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edda21fb8b71f40bdb04b51/1594610821112-31PJV6PTYQEF8SMVC8G0/clay-banks-Protestor+on+a+Loud+Speaker-unsplash.jpg Teaching - Comm 342 - Special Topics: Sound in Media and Culture Although interest in sound studies and sound media research has grown exponentially in recent years, most have yet to receive an introduction. This undergraduate course provides an overview of sound media culture, with a focus on sound and social categorization, cultural geography. the human voice, and sound practices across media. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edda21fb8b71f40bdb04b51/1594608787033-ZGS6FZ8Q1ZQNZNP4PXZF/inthemoodforlove+publicity+still.png Teaching - Comm 345 - Introduction to Film Studies This undergraduate course in film studies focuses on film as an artistic practice, a narrative form, a technological process, and a media industry. The course is built around key cinematic components: narrative, mise-en-scene, cinematography, sound, editing, and so on. Students interpret and discuss a variety of films from different traditions, genres, eras, and approaches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edda21fb8b71f40bdb04b51/1594608528747-8PTI7X0V2E81N1NW0926/UmbrellasofCherbourg.jpg Teaching - Comm 347 - Film Genre Studies: The Musical This undergraduate course introduces students to the narrative structures and affective peculiarities of the film musical. Students interpret films from a variety of critical perspectives, culled from a variety of cinematic approaches, national contexts, and historical eras. 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The approach to media here is focused on industrialized media culture and its growing impacts on everyday life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edda21fb8b71f40bdb04b51/1594610764661-AFLY2VZRQV6WZMY6WPRT/jeremy-bishop-Hollywood%2C+Los+Angeles%2C+United+States-unsplash.jpg Teaching - Comm 692 - Special Topics: Creative Industries This graduate course provides an overview of industrial cultures across both information and entertainment sectors, amid dramatic social, economic, and technological transformations. The approach here is drawn both from contemporary cultural and creative industries research and media industry historiography. Students present and discuss a variety of case studies from across media industries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edda21fb8b71f40bdb04b51/1594683575581-ATOY5YIY4FLKWK5F87G8/blue+microphone+2740+themachinephotography.jpg Teaching - Comm 692 - Special Topics: Podcasting and Audio Narratives This graduate course (I teach an undergraduate version as well) is a production-based introduction to podcasting and a survey of the narrative possibilities of the medium. Course projects and readings are geared to show the broad scope of podcasting as practice. Award-winning practitioners have visited the course to discuss their work, while offering both practical and theoretical advice to students. https://www.kylesbarnett.org/publications daily 0.75 2021-05-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edda21fb8b71f40bdb04b51/1595010036301-8RWRF5K6L23GXKC032GB/Record+Cultures.png Research and writing Record Cultures Kyle Barnett University of Michigan Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edda21fb8b71f40bdb04b51/1595009733748-LZZ1AR2MB6G8VE0WK0EJ/Making+Media+History+NYU+Press.png Research and writing Making Media Work anthology https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edda21fb8b71f40bdb04b51/1595009828160-XI5KIQ2DF7SRPL4S9SZW/screen_shot_2018-08-15_at_4.42.13_pm.png Research and writing Journal of Popular Music Studies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edda21fb8b71f40bdb04b51/1595010200641-LYYGJH4FA5SOTVMFKRKK/Music+Sound+and+the+Moving+Image+journal.png Research and writing Music, Sound and the Moving Image journal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edda21fb8b71f40bdb04b51/1595009683744-337OEJGRFMSIMYMBD689/Convergence+Media+History.jpg Research and writing Convergence Media History anthology https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edda21fb8b71f40bdb04b51/1595009872413-FHJUNC16W91IWVOELR3L/9781138195691.jpg Research and writing Made in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand https://www.kylesbarnett.org/book daily 0.75 2022-11-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edda21fb8b71f40bdb04b51/1594599747197-Q8TJXYUVAY6OFBBUZGHS/Record+Cultures+Kyle+Barnett Book - Record Cultures: The Transformation of the U.S. Recording Industry (University of Michigan Press, 2020) Winner, 2021 Award for Excellence Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Best Historical Research on Record Labels & General Recording Topics “At last, a scholarly study that integrates the history of phonography with radio and film, to show how the interlocking operations of these key media sectors worked to produce twentieth-century media culture. Solidly researched and full of colorful details.” Michele Hilmes, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Record Cultures changes the way we think about US popular music. Pulling back the corporate curtain, Barnett reveals that the infamously opaque ‘culture industry’ was constructed by a collection of music-biz personalities making decisions based on their knowledge of the field or their ignorance about music, a desire to foster new consumers or self-interest as they saw it, and expertise or dumb luck. The result, nevertheless, was the recording, preservation, and transformation of our nation’s music.” Karl Hagstrom Miller, University of Virginia Record Cultures is available at a 30% discount via the University of Michigan Press. 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