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The first book to investigate contemporary media, sound, and music in relationship with new technologies like robotics, big data, and AI.

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This reference guide to the life and work of Cyril Scott, includes a brief biography and detailed bibliography and discography sections. His works, as detailed in the discography, include three operas, two symphonies, five concertos, chamber music, piano music, and over one hundred songs.

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"Examines the remarkable history and significance of the album Niemen Enigmatic, released in Poland in 1970 by Polish musician Czeslaw Niemen in its national and international contexts"--

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"Examines the remarkable history and significance of the album Niemen Enigmatic, released in Poland in 1970 by Polish musician Czeslaw Niemen in its national and international contexts"--

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This volume celebrates writing about music and its culture from the year 2001. Selected by Nick Hornby from the year 2001 it covers a range of contemporary music styles that covers topics from hip-hop on ecstasy and Cuban rappers to "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" and MerleFest.

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Announcing the third annual collection of the year's best essays and articles on music. It's "music-geek rapture."-Entertainment Weekly

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Matt Groening returns to his music journalism roots in the fourth volume of Da Capo's highly acclaimed series

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Another stellar collection of the year's best writing on music as selected by the acclaimed, elusive author of contemporary classics Sarah and The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

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"A candid reevaluation of dance music as an everyday culture that reproduces social inequalities"--

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"What Charlie Parker was to the saxophone, Bud Powell (1924--1966) was to the piano: No jazz pianist can rival his brilliance. But his life was filled with tragedy, including years of electroshock thera"

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"Considers club culture via the prism of the fictions written about the subculture - interrogating why, and how, authors write about electronic music as text"--

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The reflexive approach and the concept of bimusicality have made possible this in-depth study of the Rada rite, the foundation of the complex and sensationalized religion of Haiti, Vodun.

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"The never-before told story of drum machines, from their primitive beginnings to their Eighties dominance to the ways they're still changing music today"--

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Explores the synergies between jazz and the French. This cultural history teases out the threads of artistic collaborations and rivalries, revisits influential meetings, love affairs and friendships, and explores tensions in US-French relations, to show how jazz has helped shaped modern French culture.

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From humbling beginnings in County Donegal in Ireland to worldwide recording success, Daniel O'Donnell recounts the incredible story of his life, charting the ups and downs with remarkable honesty.

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The volume commences with a biography, and then supplies a complete catalog of works and a selected listing of performances. The first part lists references to general reviews of Pinkham's work or reviews of more than one composition; The volume concludes with four appendixes: a list of works arranged chronologically by date of composition;

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Almost all of the singer-songwriters discussed here including Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Tom Waits, Amy Winehouse, The White Stripes, and many more sing in an exotic and raw vocal style, which one would not traditionally call reassuring, and yet their profoundly unique voices appear to be the only ones capable of conveying their unique messages.

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"This book examines the concept of 'dark sound', a strand of contemporary music that links the ideas of death, desire and violence with women's and gender studies"--

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"Analyzes the music of Darkthrone and Norwegian black metal through the lens of exotic "Northern-ness," exploring black metal's global appeal and commercialization as a distinctly Scandinavian musical style"--