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- Tim Anderson
- Assistant Professor
- Communications & Theatre Arts
- 3000 Batten Arts and Letters
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Norfolk,
VA
23529
- 757-683-3828
- tjanders@odu.edu
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Education
- Northwestern University,
1998
- Major: Radio/Television/Film
- Degree: Ph. D.
- Northwestern University,
1993
- Major: Radio/Television/Film
- Degree: M.A.
- University of Arizona,
1991
- Major: Philosophy
- Degree: B.A.
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Books
- Anderson, T. (2006). Making Easy Listening: Material Culture and Postwar American Recording. University of Minnesota Press.
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Book Chapters
- Anderson, T. (2006). “The Rise of the Radio Disk Jockey”. (pp. 947-948). Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press.
- Anderson, T. (2006). “For the Record: Interdisciplinarity, Cultural Studies and the Search for Method in Popular Music Studies,”.. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Professional.
- Anderson, T. (2003). “Reforming ‘Jackass Music’: The Problematic Aesthetics of Early Film Music Accompaniment”.. London: Routledge.
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Articles
- Anderson, T. "'TV Time’ is now the new ‘Playtime'". Flo, 4 (1),
- Anderson, T. "How Much Do I Love myTunes? Allow Me to List the Ways...”. Flo, 3 (1),
- Anderson, T. “At the End of the Day We're all 'End Users'". Flo, 4 (9),
- Anderson, T. “Let's Get Small: The Year When the Record Industry Broke and Listeners Became Crazy, Mixed Up, Downloading, File-Sharing
Freaks”. Flo, 3 (9),
- Anderson, T. “Television and the Work of Mourning”. Flo, 3 (5),
- Anderson, T. “’New Media’? Please Define”. Flo, 4 (5),
- Anderson, T. (2009). “A Skip in the Record of Media Studies: Why The Failure to Better Understand Popular Music as Media Matters So Much Today”. The Velvet Light Trap, A Critical Journal of Film and Television (64),
- Anderson, T. (2008). “As if history were merely a record: The Pathology of Nostalgia and the Figure of the Recording in Contemporary Popular Cinema”. Music, Sound and the Moving Image, 2 (1),
- Anderson, T. (2006). “Passion is No Ordinary Word”. Flo, Special Conference Issue,
- Anderson, T. “To flood the basin with Beethoven: The Rise of the Concert Station in the Post World War II FM”. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
- Anderson, T. (2004). “Buried Under the Fecundity of His Own Creations: Rethinking The Stockpile, The Standing Reserve and the Recording Bans of
the American Federation of Musician, 1942 to 1944 and 1948”. American Music
- Anderson, T. (1997). “Reforming ‘Jackass Music’: The Problematic Aesthetics of Early Film Music Accompaniment,". Cinema Journal, 37 (1),
- Anderson, T. (1997). “Which Voice Best Becomes the Property?: Tie-Ups, Intertexts and Versioning in the Production of My Fair Lady". Spectator: The University of California Journal of Film and Television Criticism, 17 (2),
- Anderson, T. (1995). “Thou Shall Not Steal Television: Signal Theft in the Age of Information". The Velvet Light Trap: A Critical Journal of Film and Television (36),
- Anderson, T., and , C. (1993). “What Are We Listening To? What Are We Talking About?: Recorded Sound as an Object of Interdisciplinary Study”. Stanford Humanities Review, 3 (2),
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Presentations
- Networking the Scene: What Popular Music Scenes Can Teach Us About ‘New Media’ and ‘Social Networks’
- Sponsoring Organization: Society for Cinema and Media Studies
- Location: Chicago, IL
- Date: March 9, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Anderson, T.
- Consumers, Recording, and Playback in the Television and Recording Industries Roundtable
- Conference Name: University of Texas at Austin
- Sponsoring Organization: University of Texas at Austin
- Location: Austin, TX
- Date: October, 2006
- Authors/Presenters:
Anderson, T.
- Space, The Pliable Frontier: The New Spatial Palette of Post World War II Audio
- Sponsoring Organization: Society for Cinema and Media Studies
- Location: London, England
- Date: March 31, 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
Anderson, T.
- Tracks on the Margin and Tracks of Tradition: Soul Train in the early 1970s
- Conference Name:
- Location: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Date: March 5, 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
Anderson, T.
- Tracks on the Margin and Tracks of Tradition: UHF, Syndication and Soul Train in the Early 1970s
- Sponsoring Organization: Society for Cinema and Media Studies
- Location: Atlanta, GA
- Date: March 6, 2004
- Authors/Presenters:
Anderson, T.
- 'To flood the basin with Beethoven and other Good Music’: FM and the promise of a popular 'genteel concert aesthetic' in post-World
War II American radio
- Sponsoring Organization: International Association for the Study of Popular Music—US Division
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
- Date: September 19, 2003
- Authors/Presenters:
Anderson, T.
- Catching the Train: The Case of ‘Soul Train’
- Conference Name:
- Location: Montreal, Canada
- Date: July 5, 2003
- Authors/Presenters:
Anderson, T.
- Catching the Train: The Case of Soul Train in Post Civil Rights African American Popular Media and Music
- Sponsoring Organization: Experience Music Project 2nd Annual Pop Conference, “Skip a Beat: Rewriting the Story of Popular Music”
- Location: Seattle, WA
- Date: April 11, 2003
- Authors/Presenters:
Anderson, T.
- It’s On The Flipside
- Sponsoring Organization: International Association for the Study of Popular Music—US Division
- Location: Cleveland, Ohio
- Date: October 12, 2002
- Authors/Presenters:
Anderson, T.
- Abusing Mnemonic Machinery: The Pathology of Nostalgia and the Figure of the Recording in Contemporary Popular Cinema
- Conference Name: Society of Cinema Studies
- Sponsoring Organization: Society of Cinema Studies
- Location: Denver
- Date: May, 2002
- Authors/Presenters:
Anderson, T.
- The American Federation of Musicians and their Recording Bans: Rethinking their Purpose, Focus and Effects on Postwar American
Mass Media
- Conference Name:
- Location: Granville, Ohio
- Date: October 23, 2001
- Authors/Presenters:
Anderson, T.
- The Problem of Interdisciplinarity in Popular Music Studies
- Conference Name:
- Location: Turku, Finland
- Date: July, 2001
- Authors/Presenters:
Anderson, T.
- Teaching Transnational Media: A Forum of Pedagogical Approaches
- Conference Name: Society for Cinema Studies
- Sponsoring Organization: Society for Cinema Studies
- Location: Washington, DC
- Date: May, 2001
- Authors/Presenters:
Anderson, T.
- Missing the Train: Critical Lacunae in Television Studies and the Case of Soul Train
- Conference Name: Society of Cinema Studies
- Sponsoring Organization: Society of Cinema Studies
- Location: Chicago, IL
- Date: March 9, 2000
- Authors/Presenters:
Anderson, T.
- Reproduce, Repackage, and Repeat!: The Logic of Media Catalogues from the Perspective of the Music Industry
- Conference Name: Society of Cinema Studies
- Sponsoring Organization: Society of Cinema Studies
- Location: West Palm Beach
- Date: April 18, 1999
- Authors/Presenters:
Anderson, T.
- Cinema and the Popular Space for Music: Fantasia, Fantasound and the Audible Pleasures of Modern Life
- Conference Name: University of Iowa
- Sponsoring Organization: University of Iowa
- Location: Iowa City
- Date: April 3, 1999
- Authors/Presenters:
Anderson, T.
- Voice as Property: Versioning My Fair Lady
- Conference Name: University of Arizona
- Sponsoring Organization: University of Arizona
- Location: Tucson
- Date: October 23, 1998
- Authors/Presenters:
Anderson, T.
- No, But I Have Heard The Soundtrack: Popular Music and Film Studies
- Conference Name:
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
- Date: October 17, 1998
- Authors/Presenters:
Anderson, T.
- Which Voice Best Becomes the Property: Tie-Ups, Intertexts and Versioning in the Production of My Fair Lady
- Conference Name:
- Location: Chicago
- Date: March 6, 1998
- Authors/Presenters:
Anderson, T.
- Buried Under the Fecundity of His Own Creations: Rethinking the Recording Bans
- Conference Name:
- Location: Pittsburgh
- Date: October 23, 1997
- Authors/Presenters:
Anderson, T.
- On Becoming a DJ
- Conference Name:
- Location: Bowling Green, Ohio
- Date: July 27, 1997
- Authors/Presenters:
Anderson, T.
- From the Music Hall to the Theater: The Reformation of the Early American Film Music
- Conference Name: Northwestern English Graduate Student Association
- Sponsoring Organization: Northwestern English Graduate Student Association
- Date: March 23, 1997
- Authors/Presenters:
Anderson, T.
- A Sassy Attitude and a Promiscuous Tone: Sassy, a Case Study in Affective Arenas and Progressive Politics
- Conference Name:
- Location: Madison, Wisconsin
- Date: April 26, 1996
- Authors/Presenters:
Anderson, T.
- Reforming ‘Jackass Music’: The Problematic Aesthetics of Early American Film Music Accompaniment
- Conference Name: Society for Cinema Studies
- Sponsoring Organization: Society for Cinema Studies
- Location: Dallas
- Date: March 8, 1996
- Authors/Presenters:
Anderson, T.
- Give Me Body: The Return of the Repressed in Virtual Reality
- Conference Name:
- Location: Columbus, Ohio
- Date: April 7, 1995
- Authors/Presenters:
Anderson, T.
- It’s Like, You Know, She’s Speaking With Us: Sassy Tones and Affective Politics
- Conference Name:
- Location: Northwestern University
- Date: April 4, 1994
- Authors/Presenters:
Anderson, T.
- Thou Shall Not Steal Television: Signal Theft in the Age of Information
- Conference Name: Society for Cinema Studies
- Sponsoring Organization: Society for Cinema Studies
- Location: New York
- Date: March 4, 1994
- Authors/Presenters:
Anderson, T.
- The Early Development of the Long Play Record as a Cultural Product
- Conference Name:
- Location: Northwestern University
- Date: December 3, 1992
- Authors/Presenters:
Anderson, T.
- 2007: Certificate of Merit , 2007 Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research
- 1996: First Place, Society for Cinema Studies Student Writing Award
- One-Year Fellowship for Graduate Studies, Northwestern University
- Minority Fellowship for Graduate Studies, Northwestern University
- Baird Scholarship for Undergraduate Studies, University of Arizona
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Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research