In this paper, you are asked to analyze and reflect on your own musical media ec

In this paper, you are asked to analyze and reflect on your own musical media ecology.
There are several stages to the paper.
Read Robert Albrecht, Mediating the Muse. A Communications Approach to Music, Media and Culture Change (Creskill: Hampton, 2004), 55–65.
Consider your musical engagements over an “average” week, in term time. (it will necessarily be approximate.)
List all the different activities (playing with a band, listening to music during a commute, going to concerts, streaming music while eating, streaming music while studying, going to clubs, practising piano, public worship, etc., etc.)
Add the approximate average number of hours per week spent on each activity. (NB Some activities may seem borderline: e.g., some movies are more musical than others and can feel like musical events in themselves – don’t be too fussy about borderline cases. The point of the exercise is to find general tendencies and trends.)
Assign each of these activities to one of the fields in the Turino Chart (here is a simple table format that you may cut and paste into your paper).
Next to each activity list technologies used in each (laptop, smartphone, hymnbook, musical score, radio, guitar, acoustic piano, electric guitar, digital recordings, etc., etc.).
Analyze your findings in the light of the reading by Albrecht.
Some prompts that might help in your analysis (this is not a strict list of questions, but a guide to brainstorming):
What is the overall emphasis in your musical media ecology?
Are there any absences?
What do you take for granted in your experience of music that others (perhaps previous generations) did not, or could not.
And what might others, who inhabit a different musical ecology, take for granted that you would find arresting, challenging, refreshing, or unsettling?
In your conclusion, summarize the specific character of your own musical media ecology.

Length: this paper should be 1000–1250 words long. There is no need for a separate cover page.
You may use “I.”
You may use inline citations for Albrecht, like this (Albrecht, 58). There is no need for a separate works cited list (unless you quote other sources).

What I will be looking for:
Accurate and concise writing.
An “ecological” grasp of music and media (i.e., a clear understanding and use of Albrecht’s ideas).
A sense of history/change, including a sense that our moment is not permanent or final.
Good introduction and conclusion.
Insightful and logical analysis.
Clarity and flow in structure.
Correctness, effectiveness, elegance of writing. (Please avoid writing that might sound like advertising copy, e.g., “At the tap of a screen, I have access to limitless selections of music, to suit all my moods…”.)
Respectfulness in tone.