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        Take This Hammer

        Take This Hammer

        Work, Song, and 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.
        Life of the Party

        Life of the Party

        by Harmony Holiday

        ISBN: 9781635902013

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: March 19, 2024

        An archive and annotation of Black music-performance culture, produced alongside Harmony Holiday's first solo museum exhibition, Black Backstage.
        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.
        The Shrine Thief

        The Shrine Thief

        by W. A. Mathieu

        ISBN: 9781949597295

        Publisher: Terra Nova Press

        Pub Date: January 9, 2024

        A renowned musician in his 85th year explores the nature of wisdom, how we learn to recognize it, and how we pass it forward.
        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.
        Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending

        Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending

        An Incredible String Band Compendium

        Edited by Adrian Whittaker

        ISBN: 9781913689506

        Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

        Pub Date: December 26, 2023

        A wide-ranging collection of interviews, anecdotes, essays, and ephemera concerning one of the most enigmatic bands to emerge from the 1960s hippy scene.
        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.
        Digital Signatures

        Digital Signatures

        The Impact of Digitization on Popular Music Sound

        by Ragnhild Brøvig and Anne Danielsen

        ISBN: 9780262549639

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 31, 2023

        How sonically distinctive digital “signatures”—including reverb, glitches, and autotuning—affect the aesthetics of popular music, analyzed in works by Prince, Lady Gaga, and others.
        The Sound of Innovation

        The Sound of Innovation

        Stanford and the Computer Music Revolution

        by Andrew J. Nelson

        ISBN: 9780262548946

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 15, 2023

        How a team of musicians, engineers, computer scientists, and psychologists developed computer music as an academic field and ushered in the era of digital music.
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