| English 466 |
University of Victoria |
Fall 2015 |
| Instructor: Jentery Sayers |
Assistant Professor |
Department of English |
| Email: jentery@uvic.ca |
Office: CLE D334 |
Office Hours: M, 2:30-4:30 pm |
Course Playlist
For your reference, here’s a list of sound recordings informing this course. During class meetings, we’ll listen to samples from many of them. They are also available as a Zotero collection.
- Acker, Kathy (1999): Redoing Childhood
- Adé, King Sunny (1982): “365 Is My Number,” Juju Music
- Alpha 60, voice-over in Alphaville (1965)
- Anderson, Laurie (1983): “Difficult Listening Hour,” United States Live
- Armstrong, Louis (1925-30): “Hotter Than That,” Hots Fives and Sevens
- Bad Brains (1982): “Banned in DC,” Bad Brains
- The Bags (1997-80): All Bagged Up: Collected Works
- Ball, Hugo (1916): Karawane (1916)
- Batchelor, Charles (1878): “Metropolitan Elevated Railroad”
- Battles (2007): “Atlas,” Mirrored
- Beach Boys (1966): Pet Sounds
- The Beatles (1967): “Strawberry Fields Forever,” Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Beckett, Samuel (1958, 1960, 1964): Krapp’s Last Tape
- Bernstein, Charles (2012): “Phone Poem”
- Berry, Chuck (1958): “Sweet Little Sixteen”
- Björk (1995): “Hyperballad,” Post
- Black Sabbath (1970): “The Wizard,” Black Sabbath
- Booker T. and the MG’s (1962): “Green Onions”
- The Boredoms (1999): “☆”, Vision Creation Newsun
- Bowie, David (1971): “Oh! You Pretty Things,” Hunky Dory
- Browning, Robert (1889): “How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix” (incomplete)
- Cage, John and David Tudor (1952): 4′33″
- Can (1971): “Mushroom,” Tago Mago
- Cher (1998): “Believe,” Believe
- The Clash (1977), “Complete Control,” The Clash
- Cohen, Leonard (1967): “Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye,” from Songs of Leonard Cohen
- Coleman, Ornette (1959): The Shape of Jazz to Come
- Coltrane, John (1964): A Love Supreme
- Congos (1977): “Open the Gate,” Heart of the Congos
- Cooke, Sam (1964): “A Change Is Gonna Come”
- D’Angelo (2000): “Devil’s Pie,” Voodoo
- Davis, Miles (1959): Kind of Blue
- De La Soul (1989): “Change in Speak,” 3 Feet High and Rising
- Devo (1980): “Whip It,” Freedom of Choice
- DJ /rupture (2008): “Radios Et Announceurs: Stalker,” Uproot
- DJ Shadow (1996): “Building Steam With a Grain of Salt,” Endtroducing
- Dylan, Bob (1965): “Queen Jane Approximately,” Highway 61 Revisited
- Edelshtayn, Shmuel recorded by David Boder (1946): “Dort in Dem Lager” / “There in the Camp”
- Elliott, Missy (2001): “Get Ur Freak On,” Miss E… So Addictive
- Eno, Brian (1975): “The Big Ship,” Another Green World
- The Fall (1981): “Fit and Working Again,” Slates
- Faust (1973): “It’s a Bit of Pain,” Faust IV
- Fleetwood Mac (1977): “Dreams,” Rumours
- Foley, Jack Donovan, contributions to Showboat (1929)
- Ford, Mary and Les Paul (1953): Live on Alistair Cooke’s Omnibus
- The Four Horsemen (1965): Nada Canadada
- Fluxus (1962-92): Anthology, 30th Anniversary
- Gaye, Marvin (1971): “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology),” What’s Going On
- Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five (1981): “The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel”
- Green, Al (1971): “I’ve Never Found a Girl,” Let’s Stay Together
- Gysin, Brion with William S. Burroughs (1960): “Recalling All Active Agents,” Break Through in Grey Room
- Guided by Voices (1995): “Motor Away,” Alien Lanes
- Hancock, Herbie (1973): “Chameleon,” Head Hunters
- Hendrix, Jimi (1967): “You Got Me Floatin,'” Axis: Bold as Love
- Herndon, Holly (2015): “DAO,” Platform
- Hill, Lauryn (1998): “Lost Ones,” The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
- Holden, William, voice-over in Sunset Boulevard (1950)
- Holiday, Billie (1939): “Strange Fruit”
- Hüsker Dü (1984): “Chartered Trips,” Zen Arcade
- Irving, Henry (1896, 1898, 1890): opening soliloquy, Richard III
- J Dilla (2006): Donuts
- Jackson, Michael (1982): “P.Y.T.,” Thriller
- Johnson, James Weldon (1935): The Speech Lab Recordings at Columbia University
- Johnson, Robert (1936): “Ramblin’ on My Mind”
- Joy Division (1979): “Disorder,” Unknown Pleasures
- Joyce, James (1939): Finnegans Wake, read by Patrick Healy
- The Kingsmen (1963): “Louie, Louie”
- Kitchen Sisters (1999): Lost and Found Sound
- The Knife (2006): “Neverland” and “We Share Our Mothers’ Health,” Silent Shout
- Koita, Ami (1995): “Diarabi,” Tata Sira
- Kraftwerk (1977): “Trans-Europe Express,” Trans-Europe Express
- Le Caine, Hugh (1955): “Dripsody: An Etude for Variable Speed Recorder”
- Le Tigre (1999): “Deceptacon,” Le Tigre
- Lead Belly (Huddie Ledbetter) (1948): “Leaving Blues” (without guitar) and “Sugar’d Beer,” Lead Belly’s Last Sessions
- Lomax, John and Ruby (1939): Southern States Recording Trip, U.S. Library of Congress
- London, Julie (1955): “Cry Me a River,” Julie Is Her Name
- Love (1967): “Alone Again Or,” Forever Changes
- Madonna (1984): “Into the Groove,” Like a Virgin
- Marclay, Christian (1985): Record without a Cover
- Marley, Bob, and The Wailers (1973): Catch a Fire
- McCoy, Kansas Joe, Memphis Minnie, and Led Zeppelin (1971): “When the Levee Breaks,” Led Zeppelin IV
- McDowell, Fred (1966): “The Train I Ride”
- Merzbow (Masami Akita) (1997): 1930
- The Meters (1969): “Live Wire,” The Meters
- M.I.A. (2005): “Amazon,” Arular
- Micachu (2009): “Turn Me Well,” Jewellery
- The Microphones (2001): “The Moon,” Glow, Pt. 2
- Minor Threat (1981): “I Don’t Wanna Hear It,” Minor Threat EP
- Minutemen (1984): “This Ain’t No Picnic,” Double Nickels on a Dime
- Modern Lovers (1976): “Astral Plane,” Modern Lovers
- Monk, Thelonius (1951): Genius of Modern Music
- Mr. Fingers (Larry Heard) (1986): “Can You Feel It”
- My Bloody Valentine (1991): “When You Sleep,” Loveless
- Negativland (1991): “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” U2
- Nirvana (1991): “Come as You Are,” Nevermind
- Numan, Gary (1979): “M.E.,” Pleasure Principle
- Oliveros, Pauline (1961-70): Reverberations
- Oswald, John (1989): Plunderphonic
- Oval (1995): “Cross Selling,” 94 Diskont
- Parker, Charlie (1945): “Ko-Ko”
- Patton, Charley/Charlie (1929): “Spoonful of Blues”
- Pavement (1992), “In The Mouth A Desert,” Slanted and Enchanted
- Payne, Roger (1970): Songs of the Humpback Whale
- Pere Ubu (1978): “Caligari’s Mirror,” Dub Housing
- PGR (Kim Cascone) (1985): The Flickering of Sowing Time
- Phair, Liz (1993): “Never Said,” Exile in Guyville
- Plath, Sylvia (1961): “Parliament Hill Fields” and other recordings at the BBC
- Pixies (1989): “Monkey Gone to Heaven,” Doolittle
- The Pop Group (1979): “We Are Time,” Y
- Portishead (1998): “Roads” and “Glory Box,” Dummy
- Prince Buster (1961): “Little Honey”
- Public Enemy (1987): “Bring the Noise,” It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
- Public Image Limited (1979): “Careering,” Metal Box (later The Second Edition)
- Radiohead (1997), “Karma Police,” OK Computer
- The Ramones (1977), “Sheena Is a Punk Rocker,” Rocket to Russia
- Redding, Otis (1965), “Respect”
- Reich, Steve (1966): Come Out
- Rodgers, Tara (2011): Wavecycles
- Schaeffer, Pierre (1948): Cinq études de bruits
- Schafer, R. Murrary, Barry Truax, et al. (1973): The Vancouver Soundscape
- Schwartz, Tony (1958): The World in My Mailbox
- Schwitters, Kurt (1922-32): Ursonate
- Scott de Martinville, Édouard-Léon with Anonymous Vocalist (1860): “Au Clair de la Lune” (not originally intended for playback)
- Sly and the Family Stone (1971): “It’s a Family Affair,” There’s a Riot Goin’ On
- Smith, Bessie (1922): “Downhearted Blues”
- Smith, Patti (1975): “Redondo Beach,” Horses
- The Smiths (1986): “Cemetry Gates,” The Queen Is Dead
- Sonic Youth (1988): “Teenage Riot,” Daydream Nation
- Spacek, Sissy, voice-over in Badlands (1973)
- Sparklehorse (2001): “Apple Bed,” It’s a Wonderful Life
- Steely Dan (1972): “Reelin’ in the Years,” Can’t Buy a Thrill
- Stein, Gertrude (1935): The Speech Lab Recordings at Columbia University
- Stevens, Wallace (1952): “The Solitude of Cataracts” and “To the One of Fictive Music” at Harvard
- Subotnick, Morton (1967): Silver Apples of the Moon
- The Stooges (1970): “Down on the Street,” Fun House
- Talking Heads (1980): “Born under Punches (The Heart Goes On),” Remain in Light
- Television (1977): “Marquee Moon,” Marquee Moon
- Terminator X with Kool Herc (1994): “Herc’s Message,” Super Bad
- Tribe Called Quest (1991): “Scenario,” Low End Theory
- Udokotela Shange Namajaha (1986): “Awungilobolele,” The Indestructible Beat of Soweto
- Upsetters 14 Dub with Lee Perry and King Tubby (1973): “Black Panta,” Blackboard Jungle
- Varèse, Edgard (1950-54): Déserts
- The Velvet Underground (1968): “Sister Ray,” White Light/White Heat
- Vertov, Dziga (1930): Enthusiasm: Symphony of the Donbas
- Waits, Tom (1985): “Hang Down Your Head,” Rain Dogs
- Walker, Scott (1969): “Big Louise” and “Winter Night,” Scott 3
- Welles, Orson and H.G. Wells (1938): War of the Worlds (Mercury Theatre on the Air series)
- The Who (1971): “Baba O’Riley,” Who’s Next
- Williams, William Carlos (1942): “The Defective Record” at Columbia University
- Willy, Smith (pseud., James White) (1890s): “Michael Casey Exhibiting His Panorama,” Actionable Offenses
- Wire (1977): “Ex Lion Tamer,” Pink Flag
- Wonder, Stevie (1973): “Living for the City,” Innervisions
- Wooley, Sheb (1951): the Wilhelm Scream, Distant Drums
- Xenakis, Iannis (1959): Diamorphoses
- Young, Neil (1972): “Heart of Gold,” Harvest
- Z, Pamela (2004): “Geekspeak” (1995), A Delay Is Better Than a Disaster