(Cross-listed as MUS 58 / STS 33.) Study of the interactions between music, technology, and culture in popular and concert music since World War I. Issues of production, distribution, and reception, involving such topics as the impact of radio on composition in the 1920s, recording technologies, electric guitar as cultural icon, synthesizers and the rise of electronic music, digital sampling, hip-hop and DJ culture, the MP3 phenomenon, cross-cultural borrowings, gender and technology, the internet, interactivity, and new models of consumption. Does not count toward the Music Engineering minor.