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        Take This Hammer

        Take This Hammer

        Take This Hammer

        Work, Song, Crisis

        by Paul Rekret

        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

        Psychoacoustic Foundations of Major-Minor Tonality

        by Richard Parncutt

        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

        Subcontinental Synthesis

        Subcontinental Synthesis

        Electronic Music at the National Institute of Design, India 1969–1972

        Edited by Paul Purgas

        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

        Two-Headed Doctor

        Two-Headed Doctor

        Listening For Ghosts in Dr. John's Gris-Gris

        by David Toop

        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

        Tainted Love

        Tainted Love

        From Nina Simone to Kendrick Lamar

        by Alex Coles

        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

        Parody in the Age of Remix

        Parody in the Age of Remix

        Mashup Creativity vs. the Takedown

        by Ragnhild Brøvig

        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

        Music from Elsewhere

        Music from Elsewhere

        Haunting Tunes from the Afterlife, Alien Worlds and Occult Realms

        by Doug Skinner

        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

        The Science-Music Borderlands

        The Science-Music Borderlands

        Reckoning with the Past and Imagining the Future

        Edited by Elizabeth H. Margulis, Psyche Loui and Deirdre Loughridge

        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

        Bone Music

        Bone Music

        Soviet X-Ray Audio

        Edited by Stephen Coates

        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

        Sound Actions

        Sound Actions

        Conceptualizing Musical Instruments

        by Alexander Refsum Jensenius

        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.
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