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        The England No One Cares About

        The England No One Cares About

        Lyrics from Suburbia

        by George Musgrave

        ISBN: 9781913380663

        Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

        Pub Date: July 11, 2023

        An exploration of the much-derided English suburbs through rap music.
        Overtone Singing

        Overtone Singing

        Harmonic Dimensions of the Human Voice

        by Mark van Tongeren

        Foreword by Trân Quang Hai

        ISBN: 9781949597226

        Publisher: Terra Nova Press

        Pub Date: January 10, 2023

        An indispensable guide to a deeper understanding of the nature of the human voice and its harmonic possibilities from East to West.
        Polyphonic Minds

        Polyphonic Minds

        Music of the Hemispheres

        by Peter Pesic

        ISBN: 9780262543897

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 13, 2022

        An exploration of polyphony and the perspective it offers on our own polyphonic brains.
        Social Dissonance

        Social Dissonance

        by Mattin

        Foreword by Ray Brassier

        ISBN: 9781913029814

        Publisher: Urbanomic

        Pub Date: May 31, 2022

        An argument that by amplifying alienation in performance, we can shift the emphasis from the sonic to the social.
        Structure and Synthesis

        Structure and Synthesis

        The Anatomy of Practice

        by Mark Fell

        ISBN: 9781913029951

        Publisher: Urbanomic

        Pub Date: March 1, 2022

        An anthology of pioneer sound artist Mark Fell's work charting his defiantly unorthodox thinking on time, structure, technology, and the relation between academic and popular electronic music.
        Designed for Dancing

        Designed for Dancing

        How Midcentury Records Taught America to Dance

        by Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder

        ISBN: 9780262044332

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 19, 2021

        When Americans mamboed in the kitchen, waltzed in the living room, polkaed in the pavilion, and tangoed at the club; with glorious, full-color record cover art.
        Double Lives in Art and Pop Music

        Double Lives in Art and Pop Music

        by Jörg Heiser

        ISBN: 9783956790959

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: March 17, 2020

        Exploring the relationship between art and pop music over the last fifty years.
        Dialectic of Pop

        Dialectic of Pop

        by Agnès Gayraud

        Translated by Robin Mackay, Daniel Miller and Nina Power

        ISBN: 9781913029555

        Publisher: Urbanomic

        Pub Date: February 4, 2020

        A philosophical exploration of pop music that reveals a rich, self-reflexive art form with unsuspected depths.
        Decomposed

        Decomposed

        The Political Ecology of Music

        by Kyle Devine

        ISBN: 9780262537780

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 15, 2019

        The hidden material histories of music.
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