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  • A Nation of Tinkerers

    A History of Electronic Music in Canada from 1945 to 1985

    by Michael Rancic ...
    Series Book 8 - Bibliophonic
    The untold story of Canadian electronic music from post-war labs to global pop.For decades, the history of Canadian electronic music has existed in fragments—footnotes, anecdotes, and half-remembered stories preserved by enthusiasts and archivists. A Nation of Tinkerers gathers these scattered pieces into the first comprehensive account of how Canada helped shape the global evolution of electronic ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • How Music Works

    by David Byrne ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Byrne’s incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its very inceptions to the influences that shape it, whether acoustical, economic, social, or technological—now updated with a new chapter on digital curation.“How Music Works is a buoyant hybrid of social history, anthropological survey, autobiography, personal philosophy, and business manual” ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Retromania

    Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past

    by Simon Reynolds ...
    One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake-crammed box sets, remakes and sequels, tribute albums and mash-ups . . . But what happens when we run out of past? Are we heading toward a sort of culturalecological catastrophe where the archival ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Techno Rebels

    The Renegades of Electronic Funk

    by Dan Sicko ...
    Series series Painted Turtle Press
    An updated, expanded history of techno music with special attention to its roots in Detroit.When it was originally published in 1999, Techno Rebels became the definitive text on a hard-to-define but vital genre of music. Author Dan Sicko demystified techno's characteristics, influences, and origins and argued that although techno enjoyed its most widespread popularity in Europe, its birthplace and ... Read more

    $34.41 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Producer as Composer

    Shaping the Sounds of Popular Music

    by Virgil Moorefield ...
    The evolution of the record producer from organizer to auteur, from Phil Spector and George Martin to the rise of hip-hop and remixing.In the 1960s, rock and pop music recording questioned the convention that recordings should recreate the illusion of a concert hall setting. The Wall of Sound that Phil Spector built behind various artists and the intricate eclecticism of George Martin's recordings ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music

    A Critical History of Industrial Music

    by S. Alexander Reed ...
    Noisy, confrontational, and controversial, industrial music first emerged in the mid-1970s around bands and performance groups that combined avant-garde electronic music with the provocative attitude and abrasive style of punk rock. In Assimilate, S. Alexander Reed provides the first ever critical history of this fascinating and enigmatic genre, charting its trajectory from Throbbing Gristle's ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • Canuck Rock

    A History of Canadian Popular Music

    by Ryan Edwardson ...
    The Guess Who. Gordon Lightfoot. Joni Mitchell. Neil Young. Stompin' Tom Connors. Robert Charlebois. Anne Murray. Crowbar. Chilliwack. Carole Pope. Loverboy. Bryan Adams. The Barenaked Ladies. The Tragically Hip. Céline Dion. Arcade Fire. K-oS. Feist. These musicians are national heroes to generations of Canadians. But what does it mean to be a Canadian musician? And why does nationality even ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Electronic Music

    by Nick Collins, Margaret Schedel, Scott Wilson ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Music
    This accessible Introduction explores both mainstream and experimental manifestations of electronic music. From early recording equipment to the most recent multimedia performances, the history of electronic music is full of interesting characters, fascinating and unusual music, and radical technology. Covering many different eras, genres and media, analyses of works appear alongside critical ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Understanding Popular Music Culture

    by Roy Shuker ...
    This extensively revised and expanded fifth edition of Understanding Popular Music Culture provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the production, distribution, consumption and meaning of popular music, and the debates that surround popular culture and popular music.Reflecting the continued proliferation of popular music studies, the new music industry in a digital age, and the ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Pink Noises

    Women on Electronic Music and Sound

    by Tara Rodgers ...
    Pink Noises brings together twenty-four interviews with women in electronic music and sound cultures, including club and radio DJs, remixers, composers, improvisers, instrument builders, and installation and performance artists. The collection is an extension of Pinknoises.com, the critically-acclaimed website founded by musician and scholar Tara Rodgers in 2000 to promote women in electronic ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Bedroom Beats & B-sides: Instrumental Hip Hop & Electronic Music at the Turn of the Century

    by Laurent Fintoni ...
    The first decades of the 21st century saw dramatic changes in the music industry as new technology transformed creation, communication, and consumption. Amid this turmoil one change occurred relatively quietly, almost naturally: so-called bedroom producers, music makers raised on hip-hop and electronic music, went from anonymous, often unseen creators to artists in their own right.In Bedroom Beats ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Electronic Dance Music

    History of Trance House & Progressive House

    by Bryce Santiago ...
    The world's first encyclopedic book (genre: music) on the history of Trance House & Progressive House dance music. The book discusses the current trends of the massive rave (dance festival) scene in North America, as well as correcting certain European authored falsities regarding the history of a part of our scene.A breakdown is given of various styles (sub-genres) of House music found throughout ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD