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  • Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music by Sherman, Lawrence
    Lawrence Sherman

    Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music

    Whenever a person engages with music--when a piano student practices a scale, a jazz saxophonist riffs on a melody, a teenager sobs to a sad song, or a wedding guest gets down on the dance floor--countless neurons are firing. Playing an instrument requires all...
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  • We Are Music: An Existential Journey Toward Infinity by Sharpley, John Stephen
    John Stephen Sharpley

    We Are Music: An Existential Journey Toward Infinity

    What is music?Modern society has come to view music largely as entertainment and commodity. In response, We Are Music: An Existential Journey Toward Infinity provides the reader with a holistic starting point. Music has unlimited potential to transform and enlighten, and is only impeded...
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  • The Life and Writings of Ralph J. Gleason: Dispatches from the Front by Armstrong, Don
    Don Armstrong

    The Life and Writings of Ralph J. Gleason: Dispatches from the Front

    Discover the enthralling world of Ralph J. Gleason, a pioneering music journalist who expanded the possibilities of the newspaper music column, sparked the San Francisco jazz and rock scenes, and co-founded Rolling Stone magazine. Gleason not only reported on but influenced the trajectory of...
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  • The Musician as Philosopher: New York's Vernacular Avant-Garde, 1958-1978 by Gallope, Michael
    Michael Gallope

    The Musician as Philosopher: New York's Vernacular Avant-Garde, 1958-1978

    An insightful look at how avant-garde musicians of the postwar period in New York explored the philosophical dimensions of music's ineffability. The Musician as Philosopher explores the philosophical thought of avant-garde musicians in postwar New York: David Tudor, Ornette Coleman, the Velvet Underground, Alice...
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  • Ears to the Ground: Adventures in Field Recording and Electronic Music by Murphy, Ben
    Ben Murphy

    Ears to the Ground: Adventures in Field Recording & Electronic Music

    From the cacophonous surrounds of London to the sea stacks of Orkney, via the abandoned military facilities of the Suffolk coast and the watery expanses of the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, from the quarries and neolithic sites of Snowdonia and the wide open skies...
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  • Double Lives in Art and Pop Music by Heiser, Jorg
    Jorg Heiser

    Double Lives in Art and Pop Music

    Exploring the relationship between art and pop music over the last fifty years.Why did Andy Warhol decide to enter the music business by producing the Velvet Underground, and what did the band expect to gain in return? What made Yoko Ono use the skills...
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  • Mad Daddy - Myers, Mintz and the Moondog and How Cleveland, Ohio Changed Rock Radio by Olszewski, Janice
    Janice Olszewski

    Mad Daddy - Myers, Mintz and the Moondog and How Cleveland, Ohio Changed Rock Radio

    "I was lucky enough to grow up during the golden age of Top 40 AM radio and enjoying the best DJs in the business. We all listened to Bill Randle, Carl Reese, Phil McLean, Johnny Holiday, and of course Alan Freed and Mad Daddy....
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  • Black Power Music!: Protest Songs, Message Music, and the Black Power Movement by Rabaka, Reiland
    Reiland Rabaka

    Black Power Music!: Protest Songs, Message Music, and the Black Power Movement

    Black Power Music! Protest Songs, Message Music, and the Black Power Movement critically explores the soundtracks of the Black Power Movement as forms of "movement music." That is to say, much of classic Motown, soul, and funk music often mirrored and served as mouthpieces...
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  • Just Beyond Listening: Essays of Sonic Encounter Volume 5 by Heller, Michael C.
    Michael C. Heller

    Just Beyond Listening: Essays of Sonic Encounter Volume 5

    Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality. In a series of essays, Michael C. Heller considers how sound functions in dialogue with a range of sensory and affective modalities, including physical co-presence, textual...
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  • Mad Daddy - Myers, Mintz and the Moondog and How Cleveland, Ohio Changed Rock Radio (hardback) by Olszewski, Janice
    Janice Olszewski

    Mad Daddy - Myers, Mintz and the Moondog and How Cleveland, Ohio Changed Rock Radio (hardback)

    "I was lucky enough to grow up during the golden age of Top 40 AM radio and enjoying the best DJs in the business. We all listened to Bill Randle, Carl Reese, Phil McLean, Johnny Holiday, and of course Alan Freed and Mad Daddy....
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  • Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 5 by Krasno, Eric
    Eric Krasno

    Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 5

    Eric Krasno Plus One is an interview-style series that brings listeners backstage and deep into the lives of incredible musicians.After twenty years on the road, Eric Krasno has spent time sharing stories with countless artists -- and these conversations have become some of his...
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  • I Don't Want to Go Home: The Oral History of the Stone Pony by Corasaniti, Nick
    Nick Corasaniti

    I Don't Want to Go Home: The Oral History of the Stone Pony

    Author: Nick CorasanitiISBN-10: 0062950789ISBN-13: 9780062950789Publisher: HarperLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/04/2024Pages: 320Format: HardcoverReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2024
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  • Experiencing Organised Sounds: The Listening Experience Across Diverse Sound-Based Works by Landy, Leigh
    Leigh Landy

    Experiencing Organised Sounds: The Listening Experience Across Diverse Sound-Based Works

    Experiencing Organised Sounds investigates a wide horizon of sound-based works using a template consistently across its 16 studies. It aims to address means of increasing appreciation and understanding related to the experience of sonic creativity (music involving any sounds, not just musical notes).Author: Leigh...
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  • A Sound Word Almanac by Herzogenrath, Bernd
    Bernd Herzogenrath

    A Sound Word Almanac

    This almanac of sound words important to artists and scholars highlights words that expand the way we speak (and write) about sonic experiences. Why write about sound, and how? If sonic philosophy is the attempt "to think about sound by philosophical means," then a...
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  • Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 2 by Krasno, Eric
    Eric Krasno

    Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 2

    Eric Krasno Plus One is an interview-style series that brings listeners backstage and deep into the lives of incredible musicians.After twenty years on the road, Eric Krasno has spent time sharing stories with countless artists -- and these conversations have become some of his...
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  • Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 6 by Krasno, Eric
    Eric Krasno

    Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 6

    Eric Krasno Plus One is an interview-style series that brings listeners backstage and deep into the lives of incredible musicians.After twenty years on the road, Eric Krasno has spent time sharing stories with countless artists -- and these conversations have become some of his...
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  • Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 2 by Krasno, Eric
    Eric Krasno

    Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 2

    Eric Krasno Plus One is an interview-style series that brings listeners backstage and deep into the lives of incredible musicians.After twenty years on the road, Eric Krasno has spent time sharing stories with countless artists -- and these conversations have become some of his...
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  • Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 3 by Krasno, Eric
    Eric Krasno

    Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 3

    Eric Krasno Plus One is an interview-style series that brings listeners backstage and deep into the lives of incredible musicians.After twenty years on the road, Eric Krasno has spent time sharing stories with countless artists -- and these conversations have become some of his...
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  • Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 3 by Krasno, Eric
    Eric Krasno

    Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 3

    Eric Krasno Plus One is an interview-style series that brings listeners backstage and deep into the lives of incredible musicians.After twenty years on the road, Eric Krasno has spent time sharing stories with countless artists -- and these conversations have become some of his...
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  • Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 4 by Krasno, Eric
    Eric Krasno

    Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 4

    Eric Krasno Plus One is an interview-style series that brings listeners backstage and deep into the lives of incredible musicians.After twenty years on the road, Eric Krasno has spent time sharing stories with countless artists -- and these conversations have become some of his...
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  • Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 5 by Krasno, Eric
    Eric Krasno

    Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 5

    Eric Krasno Plus One is an interview-style series that brings listeners backstage and deep into the lives of incredible musicians.After twenty years on the road, Eric Krasno has spent time sharing stories with countless artists -- and these conversations have become some of his...
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  • Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 6 by Krasno, Eric
    Eric Krasno

    Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 6

    Eric Krasno Plus One is an interview-style series that brings listeners backstage and deep into the lives of incredible musicians.After twenty years on the road, Eric Krasno has spent time sharing stories with countless artists -- and these conversations have become some of his...
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  • Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 4 by Krasno, Eric
    Eric Krasno

    Eric Krasno Plus One, Vol. 4

    Eric Krasno Plus One is an interview-style series that brings listeners backstage and deep into the lives of incredible musicians.After twenty years on the road, Eric Krasno has spent time sharing stories with countless artists -- and these conversations have become some of his...
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  • Becoming Noise Music: Style, Aesthetics, and History by Graham, Stephen
    Stephen Graham

    Becoming Noise Music: Style, Aesthetics, and History

    Becoming Noise Music tells the story of noise music in its first 50 years, using a focus on the music's sound and aesthetics to do so. Part One focuses on the emergence and stabilization of noise music across the 1980s and 1990s, whilst Part...
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  • Bach's Architecture of Gratitude: On the Genius of the Mass in B Minor by Crooks, James
    James Crooks

    Bach's Architecture of Gratitude: On the Genius of the Mass in B Minor

    Every lover of music finds themselves, at privileged moments, in ecstasy - certain that what they are hearing has captured, somehow, an incontrovertible truth. In Bach's Architecture of Gratitude James Crooks explores this profound aesthetic experience in a case study of J.S. Bach's Mass...
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  • Music, Philosophy and Gender in Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Badiou by Hickmott, Sarah
    Sarah Hickmott

    Music, Philosophy and Gender in Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Badiou

    What counts as music for contemporary thinkers? Why is music of use to philosophers and how do they use it in their work? How do philosophers decide what music is and what assumptions are uncritically inherited in this move? And what is the philosophical...
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  • The Persistence of Sentiment: Display and Feeling in Popular Music of the 1970s by Morris, Mitchell
    Mitchell Morris

    The Persistence of Sentiment: Display and Feeling in Popular Music of the 1970s

    How can we account for the persistent appeal of glossy commercial pop music? Why do certain performers have such emotional power, even though their music is considered vulgar or second rate? In The Persistence of Sentiment, Mitchell Morris gives a critical account of a...
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  • Elements of Sound by Dimatteo, Adrian
    Adrian Dimatteo

    Elements of Sound: A Full-Spectrum Exploration of Sound and Consciousness

    Elements of Sound explores the relationship between sound and consciousness at the intersections of science, spirituality and music theory. DiMatteo's approach draws inspiration from ancient and modern thinkers, scientists and indigenous wisdom-keepers, relating sound as both a primal mystery and a practical tool for...
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  • Let's Spend the Night Together: Sex, Pop Music and British Youth Culture, 1950s-80s by Network, Subcultures
    Subcultures Network

    Let's Spend the Night Together: Sex, Pop Music and British Youth Culture, 1950s-80s

    Let's spend the night together explores how sex and sexuality provided essential elements of British youth culture in the 1950s through to the 1980s. It shows how the underlying sexual charge of rock 'n'roll - and pop music more generally - was integral to...
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  • Music and Identity in Twenty-First-Century Monasticism by J. Haste, Amanda
    Amanda J. Haste

    Music and Identity in Twenty-First-Century Monasticism

    Twenty-first-century monastic communities represent unique social environments in which music plays an integral part. This book examines the role of music in Catholic, Anglican/Episcopalian and neo-monastic communities in Britain and North America, engaging closely with communities of practice to provide a penetrating insight into...
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  • Music, Magic, and NLP: Unleash your creativity, change the world by Hyland, Vic
    Vic Hyland

    Music, Magic, and NLP: Unleash your creativity, change the world

    We are creative organisms, pattern-seeking learning machines; the only thing that stops us is how we use our minds.The ideas in this book will spark your creativity and demonstrate the techniques used.It is beholden upon us to think bigger, better, and more creatively. We...
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  • Four Ways of Hearing Video Game Music by Kamp, Michiel
    Michiel Kamp

    Four Ways of Hearing Video Game Music

    Four Ways of Hearing Video Game Music offers a novel account of the ways in which video games invite us to hear and listen to their music. By taking a phenomenological approach to characterize music in video games, author Michiel Kamp asks what it...
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  • Tupac Shakur: Politics and Spirituality by Whalen, William
    William Whalen

    Tupac Shakur: Politics and Spirituality

    TUPAC SHAKURSPIRITUALITY AND POLITICSBy William WhalenTupac Shakur (1971-1996) is one of the great hip-hop stars. Still a hugely influential figure in the music world, there is much more to Tupac Shakur than his controversial media image suggests. This new book aims to interpret and...
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  • Live Dead: The Grateful Dead, Live Recordings, and the Ideology of Liveness by Brackett, John
    John Brackett

    Live Dead: The Grateful Dead, Live Recordings, and the Ideology of Liveness

    The Grateful Dead were one of the most successful live acts of the rock era. Performing more than 2,300 shows between 1965 and 1995, the Grateful Dead's reputation as a "live band" was--and continues to be--sustained by thousands of live concert recordings from every...
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  • How Music Changed Youtube by Heuguet, Guillaume
    Guillaume Heuguet

    How Music Changed Youtube

    How do digital technologies transform music? The answer depends on the lens of one's analysis: creation, promotion, or the experience of the listener. How Music Changed YouTube shows that the reverse question - How does music transform digital technologies? - is also worth exploring:...
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  • Music and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness by Fleming, Renée
    Ren馥 Fleming

    Music and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness

    "This book inspires us all to immerse ourselves in the vast potential of music and other creative arts to heal our wounds, sharpen our minds, enliven our bodies, and restore our broken connections." --Bessel van der Kolk, #1 New York Times bestselling author of...
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  • The Life of Music in South India by Sankaran, T.
    T. Sankaran

    The Life of Music in South India

    An insider's eight-decade overview of South India's 20th century classical music cultureThis book offers an account of Carnatic music culture drawing on the knowledge of T. Sankaran, a musician raised in an illustrious non-Brahmin devadasi family, and his long affiliation with cultural institutions including...
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  • A Year of Deep Listening: 365 Text Scores for Pauline Oliveros by Loveless, Stephanie
    Stephanie Loveless

    A Year of Deep Listening: 365 Text Scores for Pauline Oliveros

    365 scores for listening in celebration of the legacy of groundbreaking composer Pauline Oliveros. A Year of Deep Listening is a publication of 365 scores for listening gathered by the Center for Deep Listening in celebration of the legacy of groundbreaking composer Pauline Oliveros....
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  • Remediating Sound: Repeatable Culture, YouTube and Music by Rogers, Holly
    Carol Vernallis

    Remediating Sound: Repeatable Culture, Youtube and Music

    Remediating Sound studies the phenomena of remixing, mashup and recomposition: forms of reuse and sampling that have come to characterise much of YouTube's audiovisual content. Through collaborative composition, collage and cover songs to reaction videos and political activism, users from diverse backgrounds have embraced...
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  • Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film Volume 4 by Motazedian, Táhirih
    T疉irih Motazedian

    Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film Volume 4

    Key is one of the simplest building blocks of music and is among the foundational properties of a work's musical identity--so why isn't it a standard parameter in discussing film music? Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film is the first book to investigate film...
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  • Paul Robeson's Voices by Olwage, Grant
    Grant Olwage

    Paul Robeson's Voices

    Paul Robeson's Voices is a meditation on Robeson's singing, a study of the artist's life in song. Music historian Grant Olwage examines Robeson's voice as it exists in two broad and intersecting domains: as sound object and sounding gesture, specifically how it was fashioned...
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  • Just Beyond Listening: Essays of Sonic Encounter Volume 5 by Heller, Michael C.
    Michael C. Heller

    Just Beyond Listening: Essays of Sonic Encounter Volume 5

    Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality. In a series of essays, Michael C. Heller considers how sound functions in dialogue with a range of sensory and affective modalities, including physical co-presence, textual...
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  • Help!: The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the Magic of Collaboration by Brothers, Thomas
    Thomas Brothers

    Help!: The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the Magic of Collaboration

    The Beatles and Duke Ellington's Orchestra stand as the two greatest examples of collaboration in music history. Through his highly original examination of these two musical legends, Duke University musicologist Thomas Brothers delivers a portrait of the creative process at work, demonstrating that the...
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  • Listening, Belonging, and Memory by Gardner, Abigail
    Abigail Gardner

    Listening, Belonging, and Memory

    Listening, Belonging, and Memory puts connected listening at the center of current debates around whose voices might be listened to, who by, and why. Arguing that listening has to be understood in relation to the self, nation, age, witnessing, and memory, it uses examples...
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  • Black Women's Liberation Movement Music: Soul Sisters, Black Feminist Funksters, and Afro-Disco Divas by Rabaka, Reiland
    Reiland Rabaka

    Black Women's Liberation Movement Music: Soul Sisters, Black Feminist Funksters, and Afro-Disco Divas

    Black Women's Liberation Movement Music argues that the Black Women's Liberation Movement of the mid-to-late 1960s and 1970s was a unique combination of Black political feminism, Black literary feminism, and Black musical feminism, among other forms of Black feminism. This book critically explores the...
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  • Music Studies and Its Moment of Truth: Leading Change Through America's Black Music Roots: CMS Emerging Fields in Music by Sarath, Edward
    Edward Sarath

    Music Studies and Its Moment of Truth: Leading Change through America's Black Music Roots: CMS Emerging Fields in Music

    Music Studies and Its Moment of Truth: Leading Change through America's Black Music Roots presents a new framework for racial justice discourse in the context of music studies and education. Centering on Black American Music, the book issues challenges to both the conventional music...
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  • Community-Engaged Performance Tours: A Guide for Music Ensemble Directors and Educators by Spinazzola, James
    James Spinazzola

    Community-Engaged Performance Tours: A Guide for Music Ensemble Directors and Educators

    Community-Engaged Performance Tours addresses the role of performance touring as a form of classroom and community engagement.Author: James SpinazzolaISBN-10: 103224464XISBN-13: 9781032244648Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/04/2023Pages: 116Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.31d
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  • Unfreezing Music Education: Critical Formalism and Possibilities for Self-Reflexive Music Learning by Louth, Paul
    Paul Louth

    Unfreezing Music Education: Critical Formalism and Possibilities for Self-Reflexive Music Learning

    Unfreezing Music Education argues that discussing the conflicting meanings of music should occupy a more central role in formal music education and music teacher preparation programs than is currently the case. Drawing on the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, the author seeks to...
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  • Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes Circa 1550-1860 by Piperno, Franco
    Franco Piperno

    Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860

    Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 presents new perspectives on the role music played in the physical, cultural, and civic spaces of Italian cities from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Across thirteen chapters, contributors explore the complex connections between...
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  • Listen: On Music, Sound and Us by Faber, Michel
    Michel Faber

    Listen: On Music, Sound and Us

    This book is, at its core, about music and the people who listen to it--your friends, your neighbors and you. A fresh approach toward our cultural and sensical relationship to sound, this melodic examination of the world of music explores two big questions: How...
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