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A short history of electronic music
The majority of books covering the birth and development of electroacoustic and electronic music do seem to only give us a partial overview of this peculiar aspect of contemporary cultural production; essays and monographs provide an androcentric view on the subject, rarely mentioning the contribution of inventresses, female composers and theorists. The “young” age of electronic music – together with the traditional privilege granted by historians to the productions of North America and some European countries – contribute in obstructing the drafting of a paritary, diagonal and comprehensive view of this topic. This book aims to open a new perspective on electronic music history; If ...
Breve storia della musica elettronica e delle sue protagoniste
Breve storia della musica elettronica e delle sue protagoniste affronta la nascita e lo sviluppo della musica elettroacustica ed elettronica ponendo al centro della narrazione l’attività di compositrici impegnate nella costruzione della nuova musica del Ventesimo secolo. Suddiviso in dodici capitoli, lo scritto segue l’ordine cronologico dello sviluppo di tecniche, tecnologie e generi, dalla comparsa del Theremin ai primi software commerciali destinati alla produzione di computer music, creando sezioni geograficamente definite: la nascita della musica elettroacustica in Francia, lo sviluppo della musica per radio e televisione in Inghilterra, l’avvento della storia del sintetizzat...
Between the Tracks
A collection that goes beyond the canon to analyze influential yet under-examined works of electronic music. This collection of writings on electronic music goes outside the canon to analyze influential works by under-recognized musicians. The contributors, many of whom are composers and performers themselves, offer their unsung musical heroes the sort of in-depth examinations usually reserved for more well-known composers and works. They analyze music from around the world and across genders, race, nationality, and age, discussing works that range from soundscapes of rushing water and resonating pipes to compositions by algorithm. Subjects include the collaboration of performer and composer...
The Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism
A stimulating new approach to understanding the relationship between music and culture in the long nineteenth century.
Ugly Americans
The true story of the Ivy League hedge fund cowboys who gambled with the dangerously high stakes of the Asian stock market. John Malcolm, high school football hero and Princeton graduate made his millions back in the early '90s, a time when dozens of elite young American graduates made their fortunes in hedge funds in the Far East, beating the Japanese at their own game, riding the crashing waves of the Asian stock markets, gambling at impossibly high stakes and winning. Failure meant not only bankruptcy and disgrace à la Nick Leeson, but potentially even death - at the hands of the Japanese Yakuza: one of the world's most notoriously violent organised crime syndicates. Ugly Americans tells Malcolm's story, and that of others like him, in a high octane book, filled with glamour, money and the dangers these incur, this true story is a cross between Mezrich's own best-selling Bringing Down the House and Michael Lewis' Liar's Poker.
Sex Sounds
An investigation of sexual themes in electronic music since the 1950s, with detailed case studies of “electrosexual music” by a wide range of creators. In Sex Sounds, Danielle Shlomit Sofer investigates the repeated focus on sexual themes in electronic music since the 1950s. Debunking electronic music’s origin myth—that it emerged in France and Germany, invented by Pierre Schaeffer and Karlheinz Stockhausen, respectively—Sofer defines electronic music more inclusively to mean any music with an electronic component, drawing connections between academic institutions, radio studios, experimental music practice, hip-hop production, and histories of independent and commercial popular mu...
Rock keyboard (r)evolution
Il 29 agosto del 1970, Emerson Lake & Palmer si presentano sul palco del festival dell’Isola di Wight per la loro seconda esibizione pubblica. Per Keith Emerson è l’occasione perfetta per sfoggiare il suo nuovo sintetizzatore modulare prodotto da Bob Moog, reso celebre da Walter Carlos ma mai visto dal vivo in un contesto rock. È ingombrante, pesante, difficile da usare e spesso stonato, ma il tastierista vince la scommessa, conquistando i numerosi presenti accorsi a vedere il trio con una prestazione incendiaria. È l’apice di un percorso iniziato con Jerry Lee Lewis e proseguito nei decenni successivi con tanti altri artisti – da Gary Numan a Jordan Rudess, ma non solo – che ve...
