Medium: Radio, Music & Sound

• Adding sound/music to Powerpoint
• Analyzing CD Covers
• Analyzing Media: Radio Stations
• Audacity (how to use)
• Audio: Using Sound to Tell Stories
• Create a Soundtrack – Use software to create your own film music
• Creating Great Audio for Video (lesson plan)
• Famous Speeches (Archive, History Channel)
• Filmsound
• Findsounds
• Frontline: The Way The Music Died
• History of Radio
• How commercial jingles work
• How Music Changes a  News Story
• Lesson Plans: Copyright Infringement or Not? The Debate Over Downloading Music
  Learning from Lyrics
  Making A Music Video (The Director’s Cut)
  Music Enhances Movies
  Movie Sound Effects
                     Music and Me: Visual Representations of Lyrics to Popular Music
  Music Rules (copyright; downloading; ethics)
  Stairway to Heaven: Examining Metaphor in Popular Music
• Mindblue: rock N roll study guides
• MuchMusic Study Guides
• Music Industry News Network
• Music Video Creation As A Tool To Understand Videography & Video Editing (see page 43)
• Radio Theory
• Songbusters (deconstructing lyrics)
• Sound
• Sound Production Tool
• Sounds Great
• Sounds of History
• State of the News Media 2004-Radio Ownership
• Teaching Radio
• Visualizing the History of Radio
• Writing for Radio (News)
• Youth & Radio (Media Literacy Review)
• Words/Music/Images: Interpretation and Meaning

 Recommended Articles
Pop music packed with drug and alcohol references

The Fifth Element of Hip Hop (Understand Media)

Teaching Hip-Hop in the classroom (NCTE)

Song Lyrics as Texts to Develop Critical Literacy

Music Marketing Special Report

Recommended  periodicals:
Billboard   The Fader    FMQB     Inside Radio    Radio Ink    Rolling Stone

Special issues of recent magazines:
The Nation, Radio Waves, May 23, 2005
The New Internationalist, August 2003, Table of Contents
Radio: The Intimate Medium, English Journal, January 1998
Recommended Books               Other recommended sources of Popular Music

			Introduction Chapter One
	Author’s blog	Radio (Volume 4) A Complete Guide to the Industry (Media Industries Series) Pub: Peter Lang ISBN: 978-0-8204-7633-9
Turn Up The Music: Prevention Strategies To Help Parents Through The Rap, Rock, Pop And Metal Years by Jeff Dess Pub: iUniverse ISBN: 0595312209	Radio in Context by Guy Starkey First Published June 2004 – 288 pages ISBN 140390023X  Companion website	Radio’s America The Great Depression and the Rise of Modern Mass Culture	Popular Music and Youth Culture Music, Identity and Place Andy Bennett Copyright 2000 ISBN 0333732294
Popular Song  Soundtrack of the Century by Alan Lewens Watson-Guptill Pubns; (July 2001) ISBN: 0823084361	Popular Music: The Key Concepts by Roy Shuker Routledge ISBN: 0415284252	Understanding Radio (2nd Edition) (Studies in Culture & Communication) by Andrew Crisell, Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies at the University of Sunderland, UK Routledge; ; 2nd edition (September 1994) ISBN: 0415103150	Writing For Radio (3rd Edition) by Rosemary Horstmann A & C Black; ISBN: 0713646497
Facing the Music Simon Frith, Editor Pantheon Books ISBN 0-394-55849-9	Radio in Media Studies: Teacher’s Guide