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  • Recomposed

    Music, Climate, Crisis, Change

    by Kyle Devine ...
    CAN MUSIC SAVE THE WORLD?We are witnessing a climate-oriented transformation of what music is and how it comes to be. Recomposed shows how musicians around the world are using the cultural power of music to link climate awareness to climate action.Award-winning author and academic Kyle Devine profiles EarthPercent, founded by Brian Eno and others to help funnel money from the music business to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Decomposed

    The Political Ecology of Music

    by Kyle Devine ...
    The hidden material histories of music.Music is seen as the most immaterial of the arts, and recorded music as a progress of dematerialization—an evolution from physical discs to invisible digits. In Decomposed, Kyle Devine offers another perspective. He shows that recorded music has always been a significant exploiter of both natural and human resources, and that its reliance on these resources ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Audible Infrastructures

    Edited by Kyle Devine, Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier ...
    Series series Critical Conjunctures in Music and Sound
    Our day-to-day musical enjoyment seems so simple, so easy, so automatic. Songs instantly emanate from our computers and phones, at any time of day. The tools for playing and making music, such as records and guitars, wait for us in stores, ready for purchase and use. And when we no longer need them, we can leave them at the curb, where they disappear effortlessly and without a trace. These casual ... Read more

    $39.59 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

  • The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music

    Edited by John Shepherd, Kyle Devine ...
    The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music offers the first collection of source readings and new essays on the latest thinking in the sociology of music. Interest in music sociology has increased dramatically over the past decade, yet there is no anthology of essential and introductory readings. The volume includes a comprehensive survey of the field’s history, current state and future ... Read more

    $120.99 USD

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