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Take This Hammer
Work, Song, Crisis
ISBN: 9781913380168
Publisher: Goldsmiths Press
Pub Date: April 30, 2024
A study of contemporary music in light of transformations to work and social life.
Psychoacoustic Foundations of Major-Minor Tonality
Psychoacoustic Foundations of Major-Minor Tonality
ISBN: 9780262547352
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 13, 2024
A fascinating interdisciplinary approach to how everyday Western music works, and why the tones, melodies, and chords combine as they do.
Subcontinental Synthesis
Electronic Music at the National Institute of Design, India 1969–1972
ISBN: 9781913689582
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: January 9, 2024
The history of India's first electronic music studio founded in 1969 at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad by David Tudor.
Two-Headed Doctor
Listening For Ghosts in Dr. John's Gris-Gris
ISBN: 9781913689605
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: December 26, 2023
A forensic investigation into a single LP: Dr. John, the night tripper's Gris-gris.
Tainted Love
From Nina Simone to Kendrick Lamar
ISBN: 9783956796586
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: August 15, 2023
The first book-length inquiry into the twisted romantic ballad, giving a sense of both its history and contemporary currency.
Parody in the Age of Remix
Mashup Creativity vs. the Takedown
ISBN: 9780262545396
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 27, 2023
The art of mashup music, its roots in parody, and its social and legal implications.
Music from Elsewhere
Haunting Tunes from the Afterlife, Alien Worlds and Occult Realms
ISBN: 9781913689216
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: June 13, 2023
A compendium of other musics, channeled from the spirit world, the fairy kingdom, outer space, secret societies and occult lodges.
The Science-Music Borderlands
Reckoning with the Past and Imagining the Future
ISBN: 9780262047647
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 2, 2023
Interdisciplinary essays on music psychology that integrate scientific, humanistic, and artistic ways of knowing in transformative ways.
Bone Music
Soviet X-Ray Audio
ISBN: 9781913689476
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: January 10, 2023
Stories of the secret underground Cold War–era Soviet music subculture that distributed forbidden music on used hospital x-rays.
Sound Actions
Conceptualizing Musical Instruments
ISBN: 9780262544634
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 13, 2022
A techno-cognitive look at how new technologies are shaping the future of musicking.

Take This Hammer
Work, Song, Crisis
ISBN: 9781913380168
Publisher: Goldsmiths Press
Pub Date: April 30, 2024
Psychoacoustic Foundations of Major-Minor Tonality
Psychoacoustic Foundations of Major-Minor Tonality
ISBN: 9780262547352
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 13, 2024
Subcontinental Synthesis
Electronic Music at the National Institute of Design, India 1969–1972
ISBN: 9781913689582
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: January 9, 2024
Two-Headed Doctor
Listening For Ghosts in Dr. John's Gris-Gris
ISBN: 9781913689605
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: December 26, 2023
Tainted Love
From Nina Simone to Kendrick Lamar
ISBN: 9783956796586
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: August 15, 2023
Parody in the Age of Remix
Mashup Creativity vs. the Takedown
ISBN: 9780262545396
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 27, 2023
Music from Elsewhere
Haunting Tunes from the Afterlife, Alien Worlds and Occult Realms
ISBN: 9781913689216
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: June 13, 2023
The Science-Music Borderlands
Reckoning with the Past and Imagining the Future
ISBN: 9780262047647
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 2, 2023
Bone Music
Soviet X-Ray Audio
ISBN: 9781913689476
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: January 10, 2023
Sound Actions
Conceptualizing Musical Instruments
ISBN: 9780262544634
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 13, 2022