Subject: CTE
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Post-production: Editing and Finalizing Your Life Songs Interview
How do you use editing to create a final media product?
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Production: Conducting Your Life Songs Interview
How do you conduct and record an interview?
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Music Tells Our Story
What role might music play in a person’s life, identity, and community?
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Business with the Grateful Dead
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Business with the Grateful Dead
How did the Grateful Dead’s business practices create a dedicated fan culture and ensure the financial success of the group?
Student Edition:
Feeling the Vibrations
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Supporting Sobriety in a Musical Community
Who are the Wharf Rats, and how do they exemplify the practices of sobriety, peer support, and community building within a musical fan culture?
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The Teamwork Behind the Beatles (Elementary Version)
How did the input of manager Brian Epstein and record producer George Martin help The Beatles develop and refine skills that aided the band in presenting their music and personalities to a mass audience?
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Loudspeakers, PA Systems, and the “Wall of Sound”
What is a PA system, how does it work, and how were the Grateful Dead pioneers in live sound technology?
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The Original “Going Viral”
Could a musical group “go viral” before the internet?
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Distortion: The Sound of Rock and Roll’s Menacing Spirit
What is distortion, and how did it become a desired guitar effect in Rock and Roll?
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The Guitar: A Musical Transducer
How can the guitar help us understand the scientific principle of transduction?
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Making Music Videos with a Homemade Projector
How can one reproduce the effects seen in the music video for Zedd, Maren Morris, and Grey’s song “The Middle” using a homemade projector?
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The Leadership Skills of a Music Producer
How do successful music producers practice positive leadership skills?
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Designing Album Covers with Color Theory
What is the science behind color theory, and how is it used in fashion and album cover design?
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Hometown Documentaries
How can music help tell the story of your hometown?
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Designing a Band Logo
What is a logo, what are the elements of effective logo design, and how have musicians and bands used logos to brand themselves?
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The Cassette Tape Offers New Possibilities
How did the cassette tape change the audience’s experience by allowing the listener to record, compile and disseminate music?
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Sound Waves, Analog Synthesis and Popular Culture
How did synthesizers allow musicians to create new sounds and how did those sounds reflect American culture throughout the 20th century?
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Recording and Producing the Voice
How have singers responded as advances in studio recording techniques have enabled increased technological “perfection”?
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How Records and Radio Shaped American Culture
How did changes in the technology of record manufacturing effect popular music, radio, and the people who consumed both?
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The Impact of the Electric Guitar
How did the electrification, amplification and design of the guitar facilitate its emergence as a dominant instrument of popular music?
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The Many Roles of a Music Producer
What does a music producer do and in what ways does one hear the sound of a producer’s work in recordings?
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The Teamwork Behind the Beatles
How did the input of manager Brian Epstein and record producer George Martin help The Beatles develop and refine skills that aided the band in presenting their music and personalities to a mass audience?
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The History of Music Videos
How has the relation between sound and image shifted through the history of recorded music, and how did the rise of MTV bring that relationship to a culmination of sorts?
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The Birth of the Microphone
How did the development of microphones in the 20th century change the way people make and listen to music?
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The Evolution of Sound Recording
How did multitrack recording technologies enable musicians to create a form of music that could only be realized in the studio?
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Multitracking in the Countercultural 1960s
How did The Beatles’ use of cutting edge recording technology and studio techniques both reflect and shape the counterculture of the 1960s?
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Sampling: The Foundation of Hip Hop
How is the re-use and re-purposing of existing music at the heart of the Hip Hop recording experience?
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The Birth of the Electric Guitar
How did the electric guitar transform Blues music from the 1940s forward?