In addition to launching the watch & new iPhone, this week Apple also discontinued the iPod Classic–the touch-wheel iPod. To be honest, I’m really sad to see it go. What will I do when my currently 7-year-old 80g iPod Classic goes kaput? I use the thing nearly every day. It’s my second iPod; I had an 8g second-gen that I scrimped and saved for as a grad student. I still remember buying my first iPod at the Mac store on Michigan Avenue. Obviously this thing had a huge impact on me.

Because it (and iTunes) had such a huge impact on how people related to music, the iPod also had a huge impact on how people think about sound and music. The iPod featured in theories of listening, of aesthetics, of the music industry, of subjectivity, and plenty of other things. So, though the iPod Classic may be dead, it lives on in theory.

I thought it would be helpful to make a crowdsourced bibliography of scholarship and criticism on/about/inspired by the iPod. Here’s the gdoc. Please contribute!