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  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research by Moore, Allan
    Allan Moore

    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research

    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Researchis the first comprehensive academic survey of the field of rock music as it stands today. More than 50 years into its life and we still ask - what is rock music, why is it studied, and how...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Social Media and Music Learning by Waldron, Janice L.
    Janice L. Waldron

    The Oxford Handbook of Social Media and Music Learning

    The rapid pace of technological change over the last decade, particularly the rise of social media, has deeply affected the ways in which we interact as individuals, in groups, and among institutions to the point that it is difficult to grasp what it would...
    $165.00
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  • Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930-1970 by Harris, Amanda
    Amanda Harris

    Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930-1970

    Shortlisted for the 2021 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian History.Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930-1970offers a rethinking of recent Australian music history. Amanda Harris presents accounts of Aboriginal music and dance by Aboriginal performers on public stages. Harris also historicizes the practices...
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  • The Polyphony of Life by Pangritz, Andreas
    Andreas Pangritz

    The Polyphony of Life

    This fascinating book, which explores an intriguing idea formulated by Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the very last months of his life, has up until now been available only to German readers. Since Polyphonie des Lebens first appeared twenty-five years ago, a whole new generation of...
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  • The Mystery of Musical Creativity: The Human Being and Music by Beckh, Hermann
    Hermann Beckh

    The Mystery of Musical Creativity: The Human Being and Music

    "Beckh ventures into provinces that I have not had the opportunity of investigating myself." --Rudolf Steiner Lost for decades, the manuscript of Hermann Beckh's final lectures on the subject of music present fundamentally new insights into its cosmic origins. Beckh characterizes the qualities of...
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  • Sound Stewardship: How Shall Christians Think about Music? by Demol, Karen A.
    Karen A. Demol

    Sound Stewardship: How Shall Christians Think about Music?

    Nobody doesn't like music; from childhood days to old age, in daily life and in worship, our lives are enriched with music - simple lullabies and complex symphonies, majestic hymns and toe-tapping ragtime. Enjoying music and finding generous space for it in our lives...
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  • Towards Gender Equality in the Music Industry: Education, Practice and Strategies for Change by Strong, Catherine
    Catherine Strong

    Towards Gender Equality in the Music Industry Education, Practice and Strategies for Change

    Gender inequality is universally understood to be a continued problem in the music industry. This volume presents research that uses an industry-based approach to examine why this gender imbalance has proven so hard to shift, and explores strategies that are being adopted to try...
    $175.00
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  • Sound Art Revisited by Licht, Alan
    Alan Licht

    Sound Art Revisited

    The first edition of Sound Art Revisited (published as Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories) served as a groundbreaking work toward defining this emerging field, and this fully updated volume significantly expands the story to include current research since the book's initial release. Viewed...
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  • Performing Live: Aesthetic Alternatives for the Ends of Art by Shusterman, Richard
    Richard Shusterman

    Performing Live: Aesthetic Alternatives for the Ends of Art

    Current philosophies of art remain sadly dominated by visions of its end and lamentations of decline. Defining the very notions of art and the aesthetic as special products of Western modernity, they suggest that postmodern challenges to traditional high culture pose a devastating danger...
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  • Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir by Hindman, Jessica Chiccehitto
    Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman

    Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir

    When aspiring violinist Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman lands a job with a professional ensemble in New York City, she imagines she has achieved her lifelong dream. But the ensemble proves to be a sham. When the group "performs," the microphones are never on. Instead, the...
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  • Rites, Rights and Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia's Black Pacific by Birenbaum Quintero, Michael
    Michael Birenbaum Quintero

    Rites, Rights and Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia's Black Pacific

    Colombia has the largest black population in the Spanish-speaking world, but Afro-Colombians have long remained at the nation's margins. Their recent irruption into the political, social, and cultural spheres is tied to appeals to cultural difference, dramatized by the traditional music of Colombia's majority-black...
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  • Punk Crisis: The Global Punk Rock Revolution by Patton, Raymond A.
    Raymond A. Patton

    Punk Crisis: The Global Punk Rock Revolution

    In March 1977, John "Johnny Rotten" Lydon of the punk band the Sex Pistols looked over the Berlin wall onto the grey, militarized landscape of East Berlin, which reminded him of home in London. Lydon went up to the wall and extended his middle...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Assessment Policy and Practice in Music Education, Volume 1 by Brophy, Timothy S.
    Timothy S. Brophy

    The Oxford Handbook of Assessment Policy and Practice in Music Education, Volume 1

    In the music classroom, instructors who hope to receive aid are required to provide data on their classroom programs. Due to the lack of reliable, valid large-scale assessments of student achievement in music, however, music educators in schools that accept funds face a considerable...
    $190.00
    $190.00
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  • Why Bob Dylan Matters by Thomas, Richard F.
    Richard F. Thomas

    Why Bob Dylan Matters

    "The coolest class on campus" - The New York TimesWhen the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. Some celebrated, while many others questioned the choice. How could the world's most prestigious book prize be awarded to...
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  • Meditations on Crime by Simon, Harper
    Harper Simon

    Meditations on Crime

    "Everyone is fascinated by crime." "When you look at the history of song, romantic love songs may be the dominant mode of songwriting, but second would probably be songs involving crime--murder ballads, political protest songs; crime is a major theme in all songwriting," says...
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  • Music in Greek and Roman Culture by Comotti, Giovanni
    Giovanni Comotti

    Music in Greek and Roman Culture

    Although music was an essential part of Freek and Roman culture, modern introductions to the subject have often tended to be too general for the serious reader or too technical for all but the specilist. Aimed at a wider audience, this book offers a...
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  • Listen: On Music, Sound and Us by Faber, Michel
    Michel Faber

    Listen: On Music, Sound and Us

    "I'm not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I'm here to change your mind about your mind." There are countless books on music with much analysis given to musicians, bands, eras and/or genres. But rarely...
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  • Mischief of the Gods: Tales from the Ethiopian Streets by Kawase, Itsushi
    Itsushi Kawase

    Mischief of the Gods: Tales from the Ethiopian Streets

    "What a rich life it is to have these memories of time spent with the young Azmari singer Tigabu, the Lalibela poet Tilahun, and the other spirits of improvisation. I envy Itsushi Kawase. For him the streets of Gondar are close, dear, and touching."―Ryuichi...
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  • Long Winded: An Oboist's Incredible Journey to the New York Philharmonic by Robinson, Joseph L.
    Joseph L. Robinson

    Long Winded: An Oboist's Incredible Journey to the New York Philharmonic

    "You have led a storied life and I am glad you are telling it now in print." Bill Moyers "I have conducted the world's greatest orchestras for almost sixty years and can say that oboist Joseph Robinson is one of the finest musicians I...
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  • Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation by Burns, Jehnie I.
    Jehnie I. Burns

    Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation

    Mixtape Nostalgia analyzes the role of the mixtape as a site of collective memory tied to youth culture, community identity, and sharing music. The author looks at the history of the mixtape from the early 1980s and the rise of the cassette as a...
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  • Media Narratives in Popular Music by Anderton, Chris
    Chris Anderton

    Media Narratives in Popular Music

    The historical significance of music-makers, music scenes, and music genres has long been mediated through academic and popular press publications such as magazines, films, and television documentaries. Media Narratives in Popular Music examines these various publications and questions how and why they are constructed....
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  • Music as Care: Artistry in the Hospital Environment: CMS Emerging Fields in Music by Hoover, Sarah Adams
    Sarah Adams Hoover

    Music as Care: Artistry in the Hospital Environment: CMS Emerging Fields in Music

    This book provides an overview of professional musicians working within the healthcare system and explores programs that bring music into the environment of the hospital. Far from being onstage, musicians in the hospital provide musical engagement for patients and healthcare providers focused on life-and-death...
    $22.95
    $22.95
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  • Music in World War II: Coping with Wartime in Europe and the United States by Potter, Pamela M.
    Pamela M. Potter

    Music in World War II: Coping with Wartime in Europe and the United States

    How can music withstand the death and destruction brought on by war? Global conflicts of the 20th century fundamentally transformed not only national boundaries, power relations, and global economies, but also the arts and culture of every nation involved. An important, unacknowledged aspect of...
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  • Music in World War II: Coping with Wartime in Europe and the United States by Potter, Pamela M.
    Pamela M. Potter

    Music in World War II: Coping with Wartime in Europe and the United States

    How can music withstand the death and destruction brought on by war? Global conflicts of the 20th century fundamentally transformed not only national boundaries, power relations, and global economies, but also the arts and culture of every nation involved. An important, unacknowledged aspect of...
    $85.00
    $85.00
    $85.00
  • Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania by Eyerly, Sarah Justina
    Sarah Justina Eyerly

    Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania

    In Moravian Soundscapes, Sarah Eyerly contends that the study of sound is integral to understanding the interactions between German Moravian missionaries and Native communities in early Pennsylvania. In the mid-18th century, when the frontier between settler and Native communities was a shifting spatial and...
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  • Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania by Eyerly, Sarah Justina
    Sarah Justina Eyerly

    Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania

    In Moravian Soundscapes, Sarah Eyerly contends that the study of sound is integral to understanding the interactions between German Moravian missionaries and Native communities in early Pennsylvania. In the mid-18th century, when the frontier between settler and Native communities was a shifting spatial and...
    $90.00
    $90.00
    $90.00
  • Music & Camp by Moore, Christopher
    Christopher Moore

    Music & Camp

    Illuminates the expressive, social, and political stakes of styleThis collection of essays provides the first in-depth examination of camp as it relates to a wide variety of twentieth and twenty-first century music and musical performances. Located at the convergence of popular and queer musicology,...
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  • Listening to the Unconscious: Adventures in Popular Music and Psychoanalysis by Smith, Kenneth
    Kenneth Smith

    Listening to the Unconscious: Adventures in Popular Music and Psychoanalysis

    What happens in our unconscious minds when we listen to, produce or perform popular music? The Unconscious - a much misunderstood concept from philosophy and psychology - works through human subjects as we produce music and can be traced through the music we engage...
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  • Listening to the Unconscious: Adventures in Popular Music and Psychoanalysis by Smith, Kenneth
    Kenneth Smith

    Listening to the Unconscious: Adventures in Popular Music and Psychoanalysis

    What happens in our unconscious minds when we listen to, produce or perform popular music? The Unconscious - a much misunderstood concept from philosophy and psychology - works through human subjects as we produce music and can be traced through the music we engage...
    $120.00
    $120.00
    $120.00
  • Music and Musicians in the Medieval Islamicate World: A Social History by Nielson, Lisa
    Lisa Nielson

    Music and Musicians in the Medieval Islamicate World: A Social History

    During the early medieval Islamicate period (800-1400 CE), discourses concerned with music and musicians were wide-ranging and contentious, and expressed in works on music theory and philosophy as well as literature and poetry. But in spite of attempts by influential scholars and political leaders...
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  • Murder Ballads Old and New: A Dark and Bloody Record by Jones, Steven L.
    Steven L. Jones

    Murder Ballads Old and New: A Dark and Bloody Record

    Murder Ballads Old & New: A Dark and Bloody Record is an exploration of an age-old topic-- our human need to document the horrors of the world around us. The murder ballad, here expanded to include songs about traumatic loss in modern variants and...
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  • Lovesic in Kyoto by Crystall, Jay
    Jay Crystall

    Lovesic in Kyoto

    Seen through the lens of Buddhist wisdom, Lovesic in Kyoto is a journey through spirit, language, musicianship, and the beauty and contradictions of modern-day Japan. From racing through New York City subways to riding his bicycle past white-faced, kimono-clad maiko in Kyoto, author/expatriate Jay...
    $21.95
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  • More than Music Lessons: A Studio Teacher's Guide to Parents, Practicing, Projects, and Character by Thompson, Merlin B.
    Merlin B. Thompson

    More than Music Lessons: A Studio Teacher's Guide to Parents, Practicing, Projects, and Character

    Award-winning music educator Merlin B. Thompson invites today's teachers to link their teaching with notions of humanity and create success by building on what students naturally bring to their own musical journey. Filled with over fifty practical and inspirational teaching tips, More than Music...
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  • Morton Feldman: Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde by Dohoney, Ryan
    Ryan Dohoney

    Morton Feldman: Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde

    Morton Feldman: Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde documents the collaborations and conflicts essential to the history of the post-war avant-garde. It offers a study of composer Morton Feldman's associations and friendships with artists like John Cage, Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston, Frank...
    $115.00
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  • Music and the Forms of Life by Kramer, Lawrence
    Lawrence Kramer

    Music and the Forms of Life

    Inventors in the age of the Enlightenment created lifelike androids capable of playing music on real instruments. Music and the Forms of Life examines the link between such simulated life and music, which began in the era's scientific literature and extended into a series...
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  • Music and the Forms of Life by Kramer, Lawrence
    Lawrence Kramer

    Music and the Forms of Life

    Inventors in the age of the Enlightenment created lifelike androids capable of playing music on real instruments. Music and the Forms of Life examines the link between such simulated life and music, which began in the era's scientific literature and extended into a series...
    $95.00
    $95.00
    $95.00
  • Living Genres in Late Modernity: American Music of the Long 1970s by Kronengold, Charles
    Charles Kronengold

    Living Genres in Late Modernity: American Music of the Long 1970s

    Living Genres in Late Modernity rehears the American 1970s through the workings of its musical genres. Exploring stylistic developments from the late 1960s through the early 1980s, including soul, funk, disco, pop, the nocturne, and the concerto, Charles Kronengold treats genres as unstable constellations...
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  • Living Genres in Late Modernity: American Music of the Long 1970s by Kronengold, Charles
    Charles Kronengold

    Living Genres in Late Modernity: American Music of the Long 1970s

    Living Genres in Late Modernity rehears the American 1970s through the workings of its musical genres. Exploring stylistic developments from the late 1960s through the early 1980s, including soul, funk, disco, pop, the nocturne, and the concerto, Charles Kronengold treats genres as unstable constellations...
    $95.00
    $95.00
    $95.00
  • Music and Consciousness 2: Worlds, Practices, Modalities by Herbert, Ruth
    Ruth Herbert

    Music and Consciousness 2: Worlds, Practices, Modalities

    Consciousness has been described as one of the most mysterious things in the universe. Scientists, philosophers, and commentators from a whole range of disciplines can't seem to agree on what it is, generating a sizeable field of contemporary research known as consciousness studies. Following...
    $53.00
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  • Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 by Goodman, Lizzy
    Lizzy Goodman

    Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011

    Joining the ranks of the classics Please Kill Me, Our Band Could Be Your Life, and Can't Stop Won't Stop, an intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of the New York rock scene, led by a...
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  • Muse Sick: A Music Manifesto in Fifty-Nine Notes by Brennan, Ian
    Ian Brennan

    Muse Sick: A Music Manifesto in Fifty-Nine Notes

    Grammy-winning music producer, Ian Brennan's seventh book, Muse-Sick: a music manifesto in fifty-nine notes, acts as a primer on how mass production and commercialization have corrupted the arts. Broken down into a series of core points and actions plans, Muse-Sick is a concise and...
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  • Music's Spell: Poems about Music and Musicians by Fragos, Emily
    Emily Fragos

    Music's Spell: Poems about Music and Musicians

    Music may be the universal language that needs no words--the "language where all language ends," as Rilke put it--but that has not stopped poets from ancient times to the present from trying to represent it in verse. Here are Rumi and Shakespeare, Elizabeth Bishop...
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  • Music Therapy: An Introduction with Case Studies for Mental Illness Recovery by Zotti, Alfredo
    Alfredo Zotti

    Music Therapy: An Introduction with Case Studies for Mental Illness Recovery

    Alfredo Zotti, a professional musician and bipolar survivor with a university degree in social anthropology and three years study of psychology, provides an introduction to music theory with specific case studies of applications for Alzheimer's, bipolar disorder, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), schizophrenia, anxiety, depression...
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  • Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 by Goodman, Lizzy
    Lizzy Goodman

    Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011

    Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR and GQJoining the ranks of the classics Please Kill Me, Our Band Could Be Your Life, and Can't Stop Won't Stop, an intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth...
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  • Monolithic Undertow: In Search of Sonic Oblivion by Sword, Harry
    Harry Sword

    Monolithic Undertow: In Search of Sonic Oblivion

    "An inspired and intuitive navigation of the drone continuum . . . with a compass firmly set to new and enlightening psychedelic truths"-- BECK In 1977 Sniffin' Glue verbalised the musical zeitgeist with their infamous 'this is a chord; this is another; now form...
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  • Music as Care: Artistry in the Hospital Environment: CMS Emerging Fields in Music by Hoover, Sarah Adams
    Sarah Adams Hoover

    Music as Care: Artistry in the Hospital Environment: CMS Emerging Fields in Music

    This book provides an overview of professional musicians working within the healthcare system and explores programs that bring music into the environment of the hospital. Far from being onstage, musicians in the hospital provide musical engagement for patients and healthcare providers focused on life-and-death...
    $64.95
    $64.95
    $64.95
  • Music Therapy: An Introduction with Case Studies for Mental Illness Recovery by Zotti, Alfredo
    Alfredo Zotti

    Music Therapy: An Introduction with Case Studies for Mental Illness Recovery

    Alfredo Zotti, a professional musician and bipolar survivor with a university degree in social anthropology and three years study of psychology, provides an introduction to music theory with specific case studies of applications for Alzheimer's, bipolar disorder, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), schizophrenia, anxiety, depression...
    $28.95
    $28.95
    $28.95
  • Morton Feldman: Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde by Dohoney, Ryan
    Ryan Dohoney

    Morton Feldman: Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde

    Morton Feldman: Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde documents the collaborations and conflicts essential to the history of the post-war avant-garde. It offers a study of composer Morton Feldman's associations and friendships with artists like John Cage, Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston, Frank...
    $30.95
    $30.95
    $30.95
  • Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis: A Twentieth-Century Transnational Biography by Lefkovitz, Aaron
    Aaron Lefkovitz

    Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis: A Twentieth-Century Transnational Biography

    This book examines Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis as distinctively global symbols of threatening and nonthreatening black masculinity. It centers them in debates over U.S. cultural exceptionalism, noting how they have been part of the definition of jazz as a jingoistic and...
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  • Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation by Burns, Jehnie I.
    Jehnie I. Burns

    Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation

    Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation tells the story of the mixtape from its history in 1970s bootlegging to its resurgence as an icon of nostalgic analog technology. Burns looks at the history of the mixtape from the early 1980s and the rise of...
    $116.00
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    $116.00

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