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  • Two-Headed Doctor

    Listening For Ghosts in Dr. Johns Gris-Gris

    by David Toop ...
    A forensic investigation into a single LP: Dr. John, the night tripper's Gris-gris.Two-Headed Doctor is a forensic investigation into a single LP: Dr. John, the night tripper's Gris-gris. Though released in 1968 to poor sales and a minimum of critical attention, Gris-gris has accumulated legendary status over subsequent decades for its strangeness, hybridity, and innovative production. It formed ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Ocean of Sound

    Ambient sound and radical listening in the age of communication

    by David Toop ...
    David Toop's extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Sun Ra, Erik Satie, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk and Brian Wilson.Beginning in 1889 at the Paris exposition when Debussy first heard Javanese music performed, Ocean of Sound channels the competing instincts of 20th century music into an ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Sinister Resonance

    The Mediumship of the Listener

    by David Toop ...
    Sinister Resonance begins with the premise that sound is a haunting, a ghost, a presence whose location is ambiguous and whose existence is transitory. The intangibility of sound is uncanny – a phenomenal presence in the head, at its point of source and all around. The close listener is like a medium who draws out substance from that which is not entirely there.The history of listening must be ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom

    Before 1970

    by David Toop ...
    Shortlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize 2017.In this first installment of acclaimed music writer David Toop's interdisciplinary and sweeping overview of free improvisation, Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970 introduces the philosophy and practice of improvisation (both musical and otherwise) within the historical context of the post-World War II ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Inflamed Invisible

    Collected Writings on Art and Sound, 1976-2018

    by David Toop ...
    Series Book 2 - Goldsmiths Press / Sonics Series
    A rich collection of essays tracing the relationship between art and sound.In the 1970s David Toop became preoccupied with the possibility that music was no longer bounded by formalities of audience: the clapping, the booing, the short attention span, the demand for instant gratification. Considering sound and listening as foundational practices in themselves leads music into a thrilling new ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • AC DC's Highway To Hell

    by Joe Bonomo ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    Released in 1979, AC/DC's Highway To Hell was the infamous last album recorded with singer Bon Scott, who died of alcohol poisoning in London in February of 1980. Officially chalked up to "Death by Misadventure," Scott's demise has forever secured the album's reputation as a partying primer and a bible for lethal behavior, branding the album with the fun chaos of alcoholic excess and its flip side ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Writing through Music

    Essays on Music, Culture, and Politics

    by Jann Pasler ...
    Drawing on a passion for music, a remarkably diverse interdisciplinary toolbox, and a gift for accessible language that speaks equally to scholars and the general public, Jann Pasler invites us to read as she writes "through" music, unveiling the forces that affect our sonic encounters. In an extraordinary collection of historical and critical essays, some appearing for the first time in English, ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Musical Witness and Holocaust Representation

    by Amy Lynn Wlodarski ...
    Series series Music since 1900
    This is the first musicological study entirely devoted to a comprehensive analysis of musical Holocaust representations in the Western art music tradition. Through a series of chronological case studies grounded in primary source analysis, Amy Lynn Wlodarski analyses the compositional processes and conceptual frameworks that provide key pieces with their unique representational structures and ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Living Stereo

    Histories and Cultures of Multichannel Sound

    Edited by Paul Théberge, Kyle Devine, Tom Everrett ...
    Stereo is everywhere. The whole culture and industry of music and sound became organized around the principle of stereophony during the twentieth century. But nothing about this-not the invention or acceptance or ubiquity of stereo-was inevitable. Nor did the aesthetic conventions, technological objects, and listening practices required to make sense of stereo emerge fully formed, out of the blue ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Beethoven

    by William Kinderman ...
    Combining musical insight with the most recent research, William Kinderman's Beethoven is both a richly drawn portrait of the man and a guide to his music. Kinderman traces the composer's intellectual and musical development from the early works written in Bonn to the Ninth Symphony and the late quartets, looking at compositions from different and original perspectives that show Beethoven's art as ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • I Am Brian Wilson

    A Memoir

    by Brian Wilson ...
    The astonishing memoir of Brian Wilson, of the legendary music group The Beach Boys.As a cofounding member of The Beach Boys in the 1960s, Wilson created some of the most groundbreaking and timeless popular music ever recorded. With intricate harmonies, symphonic structures, and wide-eyed lyrics that explored life's most transcendent joys and deepest sorrows, songs like "In My Room," "God Only ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's Facing Future

    by Dan Kois ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    Even at four in the morning, the strip clubs and watering holes surrounding the Honolulu studio were still hopping. The recording engineer heard a car pull into the lot, and soon the biggest man he had ever seen walked in. When he stepped into the studio, the floated floor shifted beneath the engineer's feet. Israel Kamakawiwo'ole engulfed the engineer's hand in his and said, "Hi, bruddah."The ... Read more

    $12.99 USD