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  • Last Night a DJ Saved My Life

    The History of the Disc Jockey

    by Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton ...
    Series series Deep Cuts
    FOREWORD BY JAMES MURPHY'Literally changed the course of my life' James MurphyWhen someone says, 'You have to know your history...' this is it. A pop culture classic for over two decades, now fully refreshed and updated as part of White Rabbit's Deep Cuts series, Last Night a DJ ... is the whole unruly story of dance music in one volume. It recreates the dancefloors that made history, conjuring ... Read more

    RM 71.79

  • Weep, Shudder, Die

    A Guide to Loving Opera

    by Robert Levine ...
    "Icouldn't imagine a finer or livelier guide through the world of opera. . . . [Levine] distills a lifetime of passion and insight into this immenselyenjoyable survey, and with the right comic touch to make you wonder how operaever seemed intimidating." —Thomas May, author of Decoding WagnerDespitethe popular success of the Metropolitan Opera’s “Live in HD” series, opera’s grandworld of soaring ... Read more

    RM 69.99

  • Annihilating Noise

    by Paul Hegarty ...
    Noise has become a model of cultural and theoretical thinking over the last two decades. Following Hegarty's influential 2007 book, Noise/Music, Annihilating Noise discusses in sixteen essays how noise offers a way of thinking about critical resistance, disruptive creativity and a complex yet enticing way of understanding the unexpected, the dissonant, the unfamiliar.It presents noise as a ... Read more

    RM 108.99

  • A Revolution in Music

    The History of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales

    by Évelyne Gayou ...
    Established in the 1950s by musician and engineer Pierre Schaeffer, the Groupe de Recherches Musicales would become the nerve center for avant-garde artists experimenting with sound and acoustics, as well as the birthplace of a genre of music-making enabled by new recording technologies and sound pioneers: musique concrète. Évelyne Gayou—herself a researcher, composer, and producer at the GRM ... Read more

    RM 161.09

  • Kraftwerk: I Was a Robot

    by Wolfgang Flür ...
    Wolfgang Flür was vital cog in the Kraftwerk machine, galvanising the group’s electric drum sound throughout the 1970’s and propelling the rhythmic backbone of iconic albums such as Autobahn and Electric Café.I Was A Robot is a detailed, evocative account, written in Flür’s no-nonsense style. It takes us from his youth into the band’s formation and touring of their influential works, laying bare ... Read more

    RM 51.59

  • Violin Dreams

    by Arnold Steinhardt ...
    “A rapturous, witty, and passionate memoir ... Violin Dreams is not only the story of a man becoming an artist, it’s a history of twentieth-century music.” — John Guare, Tony Award–winning playwrightArnold Steinhardt, for more than forty years an international soloist and the first violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet, brings warmth, wit, and fascinating insider details to the story of his ... Read more

    RM 63.59

  • Rave Alone! A Coming of Age Story

    The Original Screenplay

    by Macarena Luz Bianchi ...
    Rave Alone! A Coming of Age Story: The Original Screenplay includes the movie synopsis, full script, and details about the production process from inception to now.The motion picture is set in Miami in 2001. It is about a 15-year-old boy who blackmails his sister into taking him to a rave. In a time before the proliferation of the mobile phone, he gets lost. He gets into trouble, has an adventure, ... Read more

    RM 19.84 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Live Wires

    A History of Electronic Music

    by Daniel Warner ...
    We live in an electronic world. Electronic sounds and electronic music have long permeated our sonic landscape. What began as the otherworldly sounds of the film score for the 1956 film Forbidden Planet and the rarefied, new timbres of Stockhausen’s Kontakte a few years later, is now a common soundscape in technology, media and an array of musical genres and subgenres. More people than ever before ... Read more

    RM 65.49

  • Trip-Hop

    by Mr. R.J. Wheaton ...
    Series series Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
    Trip-hop described some of the 1990s' best music, and it was one of the decade's most revealing bad ideas. This book chronicles the music and its leading artists, packed with recommended listening, essential tracks, great remixes, and under-recognized albums.“Your playlists will soon be overflowing.” - Spectrum CultureThe music itself was an intoxication of beats, bass, and voice. It emerged amid ... Read more

    RM 33.40

  • The Prodigy - Uncensored On the Record

    by Peter Sorel-Cameron and James McCarthy ...
    For having made rave music before, during and after the death of the scene, for having invented dance rock, and for shocking the entire world, The Prodigy are one of the greatest and most influential acts of the last 20 years. Having sold over 25 million records worldwide, The Prodigy continue to show how a huge number of influences can form one cohesive style of music. Whilst never conforming to ... Read more

    RM 11.89

  • Four Ways of Hearing Video Game Music

    by Michiel Kamp ...
    Series series Oxford Music / Media
    Four Ways of Hearing Video Game Music offers a novel account of the ways in which video games invite us to hear and listen to their music. By taking a phenomenological approach to characterize music in video games, author Michiel Kamp asks what it is we hear in the music when we play a game. Drawing on past phenomenological approaches to music as well as studies of music listening in a variety of ... Read more

    RM 132.39

  • Analog Synthesizers: Understanding, Performing, Buying

    From the Legacy of Moog to Software Synthesis

    by Mark Jenkins ...
    Making its first huge impact in the 1960s through the inventions of Bob Moog, the analog synthesizer sound, riding a wave of later developments in digital and software synthesis, has now become more popular than ever.Analog Synthesizers charts the technology, instruments, designers, and musicians associated with its three major historical phases: invention in the 1960s–1970s and the music of ... Read more

    RM 290.26

  • The Roberto Gerhard Companion

    by Monty Adkins ...
    Series series Routledge Music Companions
    More than forty years after the composer's death, the music of Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) continues to be recorded and performed and to attract international scholarly interest. The Roberto Gerhard Companion is the first full length scholarly work on this composer noted for his sharp intellect and original, exploring mind. This book builds on the outcomes of two recent international conferences ... Read more

    RM 262.43

  • French Connections

    From Discotheque to Daft Punk - The Birth of French Touch

    by Martin James ...
    During the second half of the 1990s, Paris experienced a dance music revolution thanks to groundbreaking artists like Daft Punk, Air, Super Discount, Motorbass, Cassius, Dimitri from Paris, Bob Sinclar and many, many more. It was a scene that became known as French Touch and was heralded throughout the world as the epitome of dance music cool, forever placing Paris on the dance culture map. ... Read more

    RM 41.09

  • The Real Daft Punk

    The age of Homework and Discovery & the rise of Dance Music.

    by Harris Rosen ...
    -Over 80 original behind the scenes photos!-161 links to official singles and behind the music tales.-Exclusive 1997 and 2001 interviews with Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo.The Real Daft Punk embodies the dynamic practices and principles that launched Daft Punk to superstardom presenting the essence and gift of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. A profound r... ... Read more

    RM 27.80 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rave New World

    Confessions of a Raving Reporter

    by Kirk Field ...
    *NEW EXTENDED MIX EDITION FEATURING EXTRA CHAPTERS*Nominated for Audiobook of the Year at the 2024 ARIAS Awards'Love this book! It triggers so many memories of the rave era. Thoroughly recommended.' - FATBOY SLIM'Captures the hedonism and humour of the nineties with a laugh-out-loud honesty. The perfect Ibiza holiday read...if you can get it through customs!' - JUDGE JULES'Some great... ... Read more

    RM 28.79

  • The Musician's Guide to Pro Tools

    by John Keane ...
    "I'd recommend this book to anyone, whether beginner or expert." --From the Foreword by Peter Buck of R.E.M."Because everything is explained so concisely, you spend less time wading through pages and more time recording music." --Sound on Sound magazine"An excellent book for any engineer or home recordist just getting into Pro Tools." --Tape Op magazine ... Read more

    RM 108.29

  • Bedsit land

    The strange worlds of Soft Cell

    by Patrick Clarke ...
    Series series The British Pop Archive
    A rich and revealing examination of the legendary pop duo Soft Cell.Soft Cell are not your average pop band. Marc Almond and Dave Ball may be best known for the string of hits they released in 1981, but the powerful first phase of their collaboration embraced a staggering array of sounds, influences and innovations that would change the face of music to come.In Bedsit land, Patrick Clarke plunges ... Read more

    RM 54.29

  • Pink Floyd - Betrachtungen und Reaktionen

    by Bob Carruthers ...
    Der unabhängige Rückblick auf die Musik von Pink FloydAus Sicht von Pink Floyd und deren KritikernDer ultimative Rückblick auf die Musik und Karriere von Pink Floyd in einer fantastischen Kollektion. Pink Floyd und ihre Kritiker ist ein kompletter Rückblick auf die Arbeit der Band auf der Bühne, auf Tonträger und im Film. Es widerspiegelt die Karriere von Pink Floyd aus Sicht der Band und ... Read more

    RM 11.89

  • Ukrainian Field Notes

    Sound, Music and Voices from Ukraine After the Full-Scale Invasion

    by Gianmarco Del Re ...
    Based on over 300 interviews, Ukrainian Field Notes explores how sound and listening reveal the human experience of war. It examines how the aural environment has been transformed by explosions, alarms, and their sonic byproducts, and how these new acoustic realities are being reinterpreted or erased from the language of electronic music. Since the full-scale invasion, music-making in Ukraine has ... Read more

    RM 41.09

  • Electronica, Dance and Club Music

    Edited by Mark J. Butler ...
    Series series The Library of Essays on Popular Music
    Discos, clubs and raves have been focal points for the development of new and distinctive musical and cultural practices over the past four decades. This volume presents the rich array of scholarship that has sprung up in response. Cutting-edge perspectives from a broad range of academic disciplines reveal the complex questions provoked by this musical tradition. Issues considered include ... Read more

    RM 198.80

  • Firesign

    The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums

    by Jeremy Braddock ...
    A cultural clearinghouse of the American 1960s and '70s told through the story of the period's most important forgotten comedy group.This expansive book reclaims the Firesign Theatre (hazily remembered as a comedy act for stoners) as critically engaged artists working in the heart of the culture industry at a time of massive social and technological change. At the intersection of popular music, ... Read more

    RM 105.59

  • Wendy Carlos

    Every Album, Every Song

    by Mark Marrington ...
    Series series On Track
    Wendy Carlos is one of the most influential electronic musicians of the 20th century, whose groundbreaking LP, Switched-On Bach, was pivotal in elevating the Moog synthesizer to iconic status. Her highly evocative score for Stanley Kubrick's film A Clockwork Orange redefined the sound of electronic music for a generation of popular musicians in the US and Europe. Best known for her adventurous ... Read more

    RM 27.80 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • fabric

    The fully illustrated history of the famous London club

    by Joe Muggs ...
    Available in a first edition print run strictly limited to 4,000 copies, fabric tells the story of one of the most revered clubs in the history of dance music culture.fabric captures the journey of a small group of enthusiasts who, rebelling against the commercialisation of the rave scene, converted a derelict meat store in an unfashionable part of London into a venue that remains a cathedral for ... Read more

    RM 205.49