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Theater of the Mind: Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama Neil Verma For generations, fans and critics have characterized classic American radio drama as a “theater of the mind.” This book unpacks that characterization by recasting the radio play as an…
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Electronic and Computer Music Peter Manning This updated and expanded third edition of Peter Manning’s classic text, Electronic and Computer Music, deals with the development of the medium from its birth to the 21st century. The first section of the…
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Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio Timothy D. Taylor, Mark Katz, Tony Grajeda This unique anthology assembles primary documents chronicling the development of the phonograph, film sound, and the radio. These…
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The Art of Noise: Destruction of Music By Futurist Machines Luigi Russolo The music and noise manifestos of the Italian Futurists formed a blueprint for sonic warfare waged against traditionalism, a radical new agenda played out with machines primed for…
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Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation (Sign, Storage, Transmission) David Novak Noise, an underground music made through an amalgam of feedback, distortion, and electronic effects, first emerged as a genre in the 1980s, circulating on cassette tapes traded between…
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The Fundamentals of Sonic Art and Sound Design Tony Gibbs Sound is all around. In movies. On TV. On the radio. Now the idea that sound can be an artistic medium in its own right is shaking the art world.…