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School of Communication CMS 386-4
Professor: Jan Marontate jmaronta@sfu.ca
Fall 2006
Telephone: (604) 291-5449
Harbour Centre Day HC1505
SPECIAL TOPIC : Digital Media and Cultural Heritage Conservation
Handout 7: Study Tips for Quiz 2
The second quiz will cover all material presented in class since the last quiz. It will be in a
format similar to Quiz 1. There will be at least one essay-style question (possibly two) that
will ask you to summarize specific required readings and discuss their implications for
cultural heritage preservation.
The quiz covers three main themes. Below is a summary of the required readings that
were assigned in connection with each of these themes.
Theme A : Cultural Politics and Moral Rights as Conservation Issues
Links to these readings may be accessed at the URL below:
http://www.sfu.ca/cmns/faculty/marontate_j/386/06-fall/Week56.html
Required Readings:
Brandi, Cesare. 2000(1977) “The Concept of Restoration”, in Theory of Restoration.
Rome: Istituto Centrale per il Restauro, pp. 47-50.
Dreier, Thomas. 1999 “Copyright Aspects of the Preservation of Non-Permanent Works
of Modern Art” in Corzo, Miguel Angel (ed.) Mortality/Immortality? The Legacy of
Contemporary Art. Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, pp. 63-66.
Hummelen, Ysbrand and Tatja Scholte. 2004 “Sharing Knowledge for the Conservation
of Contemporary Art: Changing Roles in a Musesum without Walls?” in International
Institute for Conservation (ed.), Modern Art, New Museums. Contributions to the Bilbao
Congress. London: IIC, pp. 208-212.
PLUS one of:
Marcus, George E. 1998. “Censorship in the Heart of Difference: Cultural Property,
Indigenous Peoples’ Movements, and Challenges to Western Liberal Thought” in Post,
Robert (ed.) Censorship and Silencing: Practices of Cultural Regulation. Santa
Monica: Getty Research Institute, pp. 221-242.
Michaels, Eric. 1993 (1986). “A Primer of Restrictions on Picture-Taking in Traditional
Areas of Aboriginal Australia” in Bad Aboriginal Art. Tradition, Media and
Technological Horizons. Theory Out of Bounds Series. Minneapolis: U. Minnesota, pp.
1-18.
AND one of:
Baca, Judith. “Public Participation in Conservation 1: The Great Wall of Los Angeles”
in Hafthor Ynbvason (ed.) Conservation and Maintenance of Contemporary Public Art.
London: Archetype, pp. 21-29.
Wharton, Glenn. 2002. “Public Participation in Conservation 2: The Kamehameha I
Monument in Hawai’I” in Hafthor Ynbvason (ed.) Conservation and Maintenance of
Contemporary Public Art. London: Archetype, pp. 30-35.
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Theme B. Preservation Issues related to Music, Sound, Audio, Fixed Media and
Performance (Weeks 7 & 9)
(Links to texts can be accessed from:
http://www.sfu.ca/cmns/faculty/marontate_j/386/06-fall/Week789.html)
Optional readings (not listed here) are available on reserve.
Required:
Sterne, Jonathan (2001) “A Machine to Hear for them: On the very possibility of sound’s
reproduction” Cultural Studies 15(2): 259-294.
Truax, Barry. (1984) “Regaining Control: Electroacoustic Alternatives” Acoustic
Communication. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
And at least two of the following:
Attali, J. Chapter 3 (“Representing” for performance) or Chapter 4 (“Repeating” for
recording)
Gould, Glenn. (1990reprint) “The Prospects of Recording” reprinted in Tim Page (ed.)
The Glenn Gould Reader. New York: Vinage, pp. 331-353.
Mowitt, John. (1987) “The sound of music in the era of its electronic reproducibility” in
Richard Leppert and Susan McClary (ed.) Music and society. The politics of
composition, performance and reception. pp. 173-197.
Theberge, Paul. (2004) “The Network Studio. Historical and Technological Paths to a
New Ideal in Music Making”, in Social Studies of Science 34(5) 759-781.
Théberge, Paul. (1989) “The ‘sound’ of music. Technological rationalization and ht
eporduction of popular music”, New Formations. N.8 (summer): 99-112.
Theme C: Intangible heritage (See also the lecture on October 24th, Week 8)
Required Readings:
Srinivas, H. “ Intangible Heritage and Conservation.”
http://www.gdrc.org/heritage/heritage-06.html
Grattan, David. “Intangible Heritage and Conservation—Balancing Usage and
Preservation” Canadian Conservation Newsletter, 37 (spring) pp. 9-10.
http://www.icc-cci.gc.ca/publications/newsletters/news37/usage_e.aspx