EMF'S GUIDE TO BOOKS, CDS, DVDS, AND OTHER MATERIALS

Electronic Music History

View: Joel Chadabe<br /><i>Electric Sound</i>

Joel Chadabe
Electric Sound

A comprehensive and readable history of electronic music, focused on the people, ideas, and inventions.

CDe #: MB115

Publisher: Prentice Hall

List: $89


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View: Luigi Russolo: The Art of Noise

Luigi Russolo: The Art of Noise

Luigi Russolo's essential document in the history of 20th century musical aesthetics

CDe #: MB103

Publisher: Pendragon Press

List: $36


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View: Information Arts

Information Arts

A comprehensive survey of artists who use concepts and research from mathematics, the physical sciences, biology, kinetics, telecommunications, and experimental digital systems

CDe #: MB195

Publisher: MIT Press / Leonardo

List: $49


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View: Peter Manning<br /><i>Electronic and Computer Music</i>

Peter Manning
Electronic and Computer Music

The updated and expanded third edition of Peter Manning's history of electronic music

CDe #: MB249

Publisher: Oxford University Press

List: $38


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View: Electronic and Experimental Music

Electronic and Experimental Music

Thom Holmes' book on electronic music begins technology and musical precedents

CDe #: MB222

Publisher: Routledge

List: $30


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View: The Sackbut Blues

The Sackbut Blues

A biography of Hugh Le Caine, one of the foremost pioneers in the history of electronic music

CDe #: MB117

Publisher: National Museum of Science and Technology

List: $28


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View: I Believe In Music

I Believe In Music

Ikutaro Kakehashi writes about his role in developing and marketing new electronic music technologies

CDe #: MB214

Publisher: Hal Leonard

List: $27


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View: The Hammond Organ

The Hammond Organ

Mark Vail's superb book on the Hammond Organ makes clear exactly why this was such a hit

CDe #: MB125

Publisher: Backbeat Books

List: $29


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View: Ether Music And Espionage

Ether Music And Espionage

Albert Glinsky's excellent book onthe life of Leon Theremin

CDe #: MB221

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

List: $34


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View: Magic Music from the Telharmonium

Magic Music from the Telharmonium

A complete, detailed, and beautifully written history of Thaddeus Cahill's Telharmonium as it developed from 1896 to 1915

CDe #: MB106

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

List: $71


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View: Vintage Synthesizers

Vintage Synthesizers

Stories of the major electronic music synthesizers from 1962 to 1992, told in articles by Vail, Robert Moog, Alan R. Pearlman, Keith Emerson, and others

CDe #: MB116

Publisher: Backbeat Books

List: $27


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View: Ezra Pound's Radio Operas

Ezra Pound's Radio Operas

Margaret Fisher's carefully documented discussion of Ezra Pound's radio works done for the BBC in 1931 and 1933

CDe #: MB218

Publisher: MIT Press

List: $32


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View: Machine Models of Music

Machine Models of Music

A representative diversity of articles on automation in music ranging from Mozart's Musical Dice Game to current research

CDe #: MB108

Publisher: MIT Press

List: $78


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View: The Arts at Black Mountain College

The Arts at Black Mountain College

Mary Emma Harris' description of this major experiment in education is the illumination of a legend.

CDe #: MB219

Publisher: MIT Press

List: $45


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View: If These Halls Could Talk

If These Halls Could Talk

A historical tour through San Francisco recording studios

CDe #: MB274

Publisher: Thomson Learning

List: $28


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View: Virtual Music

Virtual Music

How the Web Got Wired for Sound

CDe #: MB261

Publisher: Routledge

List: $25


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View: Women Composers and Music Technology in the United States

Women Composers and Music Technology in the United States

A discussion of the achievements of women as composers of experimental and avant-garde music from the 1930s to the present day

CDe #: MB267

Publisher: Ashgate

List: $80


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View: Elektroakustische Musik &amp; Computermusik

Elektroakustische Musik & Computermusik

The history and techniques of electronic and computer music by Martin Supper, in German

CDe #: MB188

Publisher: Wolke Verlag

List: $23


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View: Max Neuhaus

Max Neuhaus

Max Neuhaus, master percussionist turned sound artist, is known for his sound installations in specific environments.

CDe #: MB285

Publisher: Dia Art Foundation

List: $35


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View: Music Machine

Music Machine

A collection of 53 classic articles published in Computer Music Journal between 1980 and 1985

CDe #: MB112

Publisher: MIT Press

List: $49


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View: Ren&eacute;e Levine Packer<br /><i>This Life of Sounds</i>

Renée Levine Packer
This Life of Sounds

In 1964, Lukas Foss founded the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

CDe #: MB287

List: $35


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View: Tara Rodgers<br /><i>Pink Noises</i>

Tara Rodgers
Pink Noises

This book is 24 interviews with women who have worked in electronic music.

CDe #: MB290

Publisher: Duke University Press

List: $24


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View: The League of Automatic Composers: 1978-1983

The League of Automatic Composers: 1978-1983

The League of Automatic Music Composers was a band/collective of experimentalists in the San Francisco Bay Are

CDe #: NW367

Publisher: New World

List: $16


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