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  • The Blue Series: The Story Behind the Color by Blackwell, Ben
    Ben Blackwell

    The Blue Series: The Story Behind the Color

    I love great books about records: ripping yarns about everything that happened on the way to my stereo, with no minutiae too small to matter. The Blue Series: The Story Behind the Coloris the tale, in depth, behind every Blue single. - David Fricke,...
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  • Timbre: Paradox, Materialism, Vibrational Aesthetics by Van Elferen, Isabella
    Isabella Van Elferen

    Timbre: Paradox, Materialism, Vibrational Aesthetics

    Timbre is among the most important and the most elusive aspects of music. Visceral and immediate in its sonic properties, yet also considered sublime and ineffable, timbre finds itself caught up in metaphors: tone "color", "wet" acoustics, or in Schoenberg's words, "the illusory stuff...
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  • Woodstock at 50: Anatomy of a Revolution by Prewett, Aidan
    Aidan Prewett

    Woodstock at 50: Anatomy of a Revolution

    As the 1960's drew to a close, the gathering at Woodstock defined a moment in history and redefined the world of music and politics over the course of a single weekend. From the Cuban Missile Crisis to the Vietnam war, Woodstock placed three days...
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  • Who'll Stop the Rain: Respect, Remembrance, and Reconciliation in Post-Vietnam America by Bradley, Doug
    Doug Bradley

    Who'll Stop the Rain: Respect, Remembrance, and Reconciliation in Post-Vietnam America

    In their 2015 award-winning book, We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War, Doug Bradley and Craig Werner placed popular music at the heart of the American experience in Vietnam. Over the next two years, they made more than...
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  • The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World by Krukowski, Damon
    Damon Krukowski

    The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World

    An NPR Best Book of the Year: "A pointedly passionate look at what's been lost in the digital era." --Los Angeles Times A longtime musician and former member of the indie band Galaxie 500 who has also taught at Harvard, Damon Krukowski has watched...
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  • Shake the City: Experiments in Space and Time, Music and Crisis by Billet, Alexander
    Alexander Billet

    Shake the City: Experiments in Space and Time, Music and Crisis

    What is the relationship between music and radical social change? This book explores their confounding and exciting interrelations in original and engaging ways. Beginning with how capitalism and empire have progressively twisted and atomized our aurally aesthetic experiences over the past century, Alexander Billet...
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  • Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir by Hindman, Jessica Chiccehitto
    Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman

    Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir

    Sounds Like Titanic tells the unforgettable story of how Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman became a fake violinist. Struggling to pay her college tuition, Hindman accepts a dream position in an award-winning ensemble that brings ready money. But the ensemble is a sham. When the group...
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  • Theology and Protest Music by Harwell, Jonathan H.
    Jonathan H. Harwell

    Theology and Protest Music

    This interfaith collection of essays on theology in diverse genres of protest music examines Habakkuk, Brazilian eschatology, Black liberation, esoteric Islam in rap, heavy metal as anti-theology, Howard Thurman's relevance to jazz, Santer? drumming, Jay-Z, Funkadelic, Marvin Gaye, Sweet Honey in the Rock, and...
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  • Simple and Daring by Oshinsky, James
    James Oshinsky

    Simple and Daring

    Based on the pioneering improvisation workshops of the late cellist David Darling, Simple and Daring presents suggestions for teaching Social Music Improvisation to children and adults at all levels of ability and experience. There are specific ideas for incorporating improvisation into the common practices...
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  • The Ottava Method, Take Your Life Up An Octave by Muller, Corinna
    Corinna Muller

    The Ottava Method, Take Your Life Up An Octave

    The Ottava Method of self-coaching was created to help ANYONE achieve goals in a stepwise fashion. Ottava is an Italian musical term that means "octave" based on the 8 notes of a musical scale. To "8va" a written musical passage in a score means...
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  • Under the Table and Screaming: Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar by O'Hare, Erin
    Erin O'Hare

    Under the Table and Screaming Volume One: Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar

    Under the Table and Screaming is a multi-volume series exploring the history and legacy of the local music scene in Charlottesville, VA. From literally underground shows in DIY basements to the racially suppressed hip-hop scene to thriving roots music on woodsy back porches to...
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  • This Must Be the Place: Music, Community, and Vanished Space in New York City by Rifkin, Jesse
    Jesse Rifkin

    This Must Be the Place: Music, Community, and Vanished Spaces in New York City

    A fascinating history that examines how real estate, gentrification, community, and the highs and lows of New York City itself shaped the city's music scenes--from folk to house music--and how those scenes shaped the city.Take a walk through almost any neighborhood in Manhattan and...
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  • The Emancipation of Slaves through Music by Knowles Mba, Ph. D. Mathew
    Ph. D. Mathew Knowles Mba

    The Emancipation of Slaves through Music

    In The Emancipation of Slaves Through Music, music mogul Dr. Mathew Knowles presents a keen examination of the liberating effects of music on an oppressed people. By taking readers on the journey of its secret use during slavery up through its eventual commercialization in...
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  • The Birth of Breaking: Hip-Hop History from the Floor Up by Aprahamian, Serouj Midus
    Serouj Midus Aprahamian

    The Birth of Breaking: Hip-Hop History from the Floor Up

    The untold story of how breaking - one of the most widely practiced dance forms in the world today - began as a distinctly African American expression in the Bronx, New York, during the 1970s. Breaking is the first and most widely practiced hip-hop...
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  • Theistic Philosophy of Tagore and Iqbal: A Comparative Study by Khan, Shazia
    Shazia Khan

    Theistic Philosophy of Tagore and Iqbal: A Comparative Study

    Rabindranath Tagore was multi faceted genius -poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, educator and painter. Tagore is considered as an Indo-Anglain writer although he wrote only one poem in English "The Child". All his other original Bengali version "Gitanjali" his poems, short...
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  • perfection and imagination by Gåvertsson, Frits
    Frits G蛆ertsson

    perfection and imagination

    This is a study of Iris Murdoch's moral philosophy. As such it does not address her substantial output as a novelist, playwright, and poet-26 novels between her first, Under the Net (1954) and her last, Jackson's Dilemma (1995), six plays including A Severed Head...
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  • Starboard Quest: Sailing the Sea of Sound to Explore Music's Connection to the Universe by Jager, Mark
    Mark Jager

    Starboard Quest: Sailing the Sea of Sound to Explore Music's Connection to the Universe

    Ancient sages spoke of secret music, purposely hidden from the ears of most mortals. Researchers say the enlightened philosopher, Pythagoras, could hear this music. He perceived it, even while in the immediate presence of those who couldn't.Pythagoras and others believed that all things were...
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  • Pearl Jam and Philosophy by Marino, Stefano
    Stefano Marino

    Pearl Jam and Philosophy

    The first scholarly discussion on the band, Pearl Jam and Philosophy examines both the songs (music and lyrics) and the activities (live performances, political commitments) of one of the most celebrated and charismatic rock bands of the last 30 years. The book investigates the...
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  • You Got The Gig, Here's How To Keep It: A Working Musician's Model For Success by Thomas, Andrew
    Andrew Thomas

    You Got The Gig, Here's How To Keep It: A Working Musician's Model For Success

    The music business doesn't come with a manual, so Andrew Blaze Thomas wrote one With over 20 years of experience as a professional drummer, Blaze has established rules for working musicians that illustrates how to acquire and maintain consistent work. You Got The Gig,...
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  • The Music of the Most Ancient Nations - Particularly of the Assyrians, Egyptians and Hebrews; With Special Reference to Recent Discoveries in Western by Engel, Carl
    Carl Engel

    The Music of the Most Ancient Nations - Particularly of the Assyrians, Egyptians and Hebrews; With Special Reference to Recent Discoveries in Western

    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Carl EngelISBN-10: 1445589095ISBN-13: 9781445589091Publisher: Spaight...
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  • Musical Ecologies: Instrumental Music Ensembles Around the World by de Bruin, Leon R.
    Leon R. de Bruin

    Musical Ecologies: Instrumental Music Ensembles Around the World

    Community music around the world reflects the growing and diverse ways humans collectivise and express themselves in ways that articulate our cultural, social, and environmental complexity. Revisiting, redevising, and reimagining some of the field's approaches, ideologies, and contexts, this co-edited volume investigates beyond generalist...
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  • This Must Be the Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better by Shapiro, Shain
    Shain Shapiro

    This Must Be the Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better

    This Must Be the Place explores how music can make cities better. This Must Be the Place introduces and examines music's relationship to cities. Not the influence cities have on music, but the powerful impact music can have on how cities are developed, built,...
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  • Techniques of Hearing: History, Theory and Practices by Schillmeier, Michael
    Michael Schillmeier

    Techniques of Hearing: History, Theory and Practices

    Hearing, health, and technologies are entangled in multi-faceted ways. This edited volume addresses this complex relationship by arguing that modern hearing was and is increasingly linked to and mediated by technological innovations. By providing a set of original interdisciplinary investigations that shed new light...
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  • Ways & Sounds: Inquiries. Interconnections. Contours. by Brennan, Patrick
    Patrick Brennan

    Ways & Sounds: Inquiries. Interconnections. Contours.

    Arteidolia Press 2021 What transforms sounds into music? Composer & improviser patrick brennan asks us in this series of essays to put aside what we ordinarily think music is and to reimagine a more inclusive, relational framework, an ecology of composing.. When people, especially...
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  • Sonic Identity at the Margins by Love, Joanna
    Joanna Love

    Sonic Identity at the Margins

    Sonic Identity at the Margins convenes the interdisciplinary work of 17 academics, composers, and performers to examine sonic identity from the 19th century to the present. Recognizing the myriad aspects of identity formation, the authors in this volume adopt methodological approaches that range from...
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  • Soundstorm: Musings on the Madness of the Modern Music Ecosystem by Desai-Chowdhry, Saransh
    Saransh Desai-Chowdhry

    Soundstorm: Musings on the Madness of the Modern Music Ecosystem

    Music revenues are predicted to hit $131 billion by 2030 according to Goldman Sachs.Soundstorm analyzes the business and culture of the modern music ecosystem as it straddles unprecedented growth and unforeseen challenges in the ever-evolving digital age. Through a collection of essays, 22-year-old Saransh...
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  • The Emancipation of Slaves through Music by Knowles Ph. D., Mathew
    Mathew Knowles Ph. D.

    The Emancipation of Slaves through Music

    In The Emancipation of Slaves Through Music, music mogul Dr. Mathew Knowles presents a keen examination of the liberating effects of music on an oppressed people. By taking readers on the journey of its secret use during slavery up through its eventual commercialization in...
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  • Schiller and Music by Longyear, R. M.
    R. M. Longyear

    Schiller and Music

    In this first definitive study of Friedrich Schiller's relationship to music, R. M. Longyear discusses Schiller's personal, literary, and philosophical utilization of music as well as the influence of Schiller's works on composers from 1782 through the 1960s. Author: R. M. LongyearISBN-10: 1469657813ISBN-13: 9781469657813Publisher:...
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  • Reggaestories: Jamaican Musical Legends and Cultural Legacies by Hope, Donna P.
    Donna P. Hope

    Reggaestories: Jamaican Musical Legends and Cultural Legacies

    ReggaeStories provides a range of perspectives on the development of Jamaican popular music and culture, in particular reggae and dancehall, and opens the door to new debates on these music forms and their producers and creators. It moves through early musical debates and incendiary...
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  • We Were There: Austin Concert Crowds Shot from the Pit, 2007-2017 by Carson, Sandy
    Sandy Carson

    We Were There: Austin Concert Crowds Shot from the Pit, 2007-2017

    We Were There explores the symbiotic relationship between rock concert fans, the bands, and the photographer at music festivals. Sandy Carson's photographs candidly capture the true human experience of interacting with music.Sandy Carson is a Scottish photographer who has exhibited nationally and internationally, from...
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  • Singing for Our Lives: Stories from the Street Choirs by Writing Collective, Campaign Choirs
    Campaign Choirs Writing Collective

    Singing for Our Lives: Stories from the Street Choirs

    Exploring the role of street choirs in political culture, and based on oral histories from more than 40 members of UK street choirs, this book introduces this neglected world to a wider public, including activists and academics. The title is taken from a song...
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  • Rebel Musics, Volume 2: Human Rights, Resistant Sounds, and the Politics of Music Making by Fischlin, Daniel
    Daniel Fischlin

    Rebel Musics, Volume 2: Human Rights, Resistant Sounds, and the Politics of Music Making

    When it was first published in 2003, Rebel Musics sought to explore how musical activism resonates as resistance to the dominant culture, and how political action through music increases the potential for people to determine their own fate. If anything, these issues seem to...
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  • Popular Music and Automobiles by Duffett, Mark
    Mark Duffett

    Popular Music and Automobiles

    Particularly since the 1950s, cars and popular music have been constantly associated. As complementary goods and intertwined technologies, their relationship has become part of a widely shared experience-one that connects individuals and society, private worlds and public spheres. Popular Music and Automobiles aims to...
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  • StereoPravda: Politically Incorrect View On High End Audio by Kucherenko, Misha
    Misha Kucherenko

    StereoPravda: Politically Incorrect View On High End Audio

    This unique book is dedicated to what has been known since the 70s as the High End Audio industry (and, first and foremost, to the equipment that is at the frontline of humanity's pursuit of sonic Utopia) as well as to the dramatic story...
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  • This Is Not a Fighting Song by Holladay, Meredith
    Meredith Holladay

    This Is Not a Fighting Song

    It is through their music that the Indigo Girls build upon the theological idea of community-building and solidarity-forming, in order to tell the stories, to relate the authentic experience of human struggle and reconciliation, of human love and pain. Further, they work outward, convicted...
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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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  • The Evolution of Chinese Popular Music: Modernization and Globalization, 1927 to the Present by Cheng, Ya-Hui
    Ya-Hui Cheng

    The Evolution of Chinese Popular Music: Modernization and Globalization, 1927 to the Present

    Ya-Hui Cheng examines the emergence of popular music genres - jazz, rock, and hip-hop - in Chinese society, covering the social underpinnings that shaped the development of popular music in China and Taiwan, from imperialism to westernization and from modernization to globalization. The political...
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  • Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran by Siamdoust, Nahid
    Nahid Siamdoust

    Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran

    Music was one of the first casualties of the Iranian Revolution. It was banned in 1979, but it quickly crept back into Iranian culture and politics. The state made use of music for its propaganda during the Iran-Iraq war. Over time music provided an...
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  • The Hum of the World: A Philosophy of Listening by Kramer, Lawrence
    Lawrence Kramer

    The Hum of the World: A Philosophy of Listening

    The Hum of the World is an invitation to contemplate what would happen if we heard the world as attentively as we see it. Balancing big ideas, playful wit and lyrical prose, this imaginative volume identifies the role of sound in Western experience as...
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  • Reaching God Speed: Unlocking the Secret Broadcast Revealing the Mystery of Everything by Kovacs, Joe
    Joe Kovacs

    Reaching God Speed: Unlocking the Secret Broadcast Revealing the Mystery of Everything

    Is it possible we've all been missing something extraordinary in life? Can we really discover and understand the secret to everything? The answer is surprising, and what we're about to learn will wake us up to a reality most of us never knew existed....
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  • The Illustrated Book of Songs by Boyd, Colm
    Colm Boyd

    The Illustrated Book of Songs

    From rockers to ravers, The Illustrated Book of Songs is the book every music lover will want. In quick-witted style, Irish writer Colm Boyd navigates us through lists of classic songs for every occasion. Prepare yourself for fascinating facts, cool illustrations and withering commentary...
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  • The Great Psychic Outdoors: Adventures in Low Fidelity by Monacelli, Enrico
    Enrico Monacelli

    The Great Psychic Outdoors: Adventures in Low Fidelity

    Explores the weird world of lo-fi music to investigate its revolutionary potential and its ability to subvert what we think music can do. Homemade records, tape-hiss worship and a taste for a very peculiar kind of psychedelia have carved themselves a weird niche in...
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  • StereoPravda: Politically Incorrect View On High End Audio by Kucherenko, Misha
    Misha Kucherenko

    StereoPravda: Politically Incorrect View On High End Audio

    This unique book is dedicated to what has been known since the 70s as the High End Audio industry (and, first and foremost, to the equipment that is at the frontline of humanity's pursuit of sonic Utopia) as well as to the dramatic story...
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  • This Is Not a Fighting Song: The Prophetic Witness of the Indigo Girls by Holladay, Meredith
    Meredith Holladay

    This Is Not a Fighting Song

    It is through their music that the Indigo Girls build upon the theological idea of community-building and solidarity-forming, in order to tell the stories, to relate the authentic experience of human struggle and reconciliation, of human love and pain. Further, they work outward, convicted...
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  • The Awesome Music Project Canada: Songs of Hope and Happiness by Stuart, Terry
    Terry Stuart

    The Awesome Music Project Canada: Songs of Hope and Happiness

    MUSIC HEALS US. It can provide solace in difficult times, and help us celebrate moments of joy. The transformative power of music is at the heart of this compilation of intimate recollections by Canadians from every province and territory. In these remarkable stories, Canadians...
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  • Shared Musical Lives: Philosophy, Disability, and the Power of Sonification by Carlson, Licia
    Licia Carlson

    Shared Musical Lives: Philosophy, Disability, and the Power of Sonification

    Shared Musical Lives makes the case for the epistemological and ethical significance of musical experience. Music can be a source of self-knowledge and self-expression, and hence reveal important dimensions of the self to others. This knowledge--of both self and of others--has a moral force...
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  • The Music of the Spheres in the Western Imagination by Kendall, David J.
    David J. Kendall

    The Music of the Spheres in the Western Imagination

    The Music of the Spheres in the Western Imagination describes various systematic musical ecologies of the cosmos by examining attempts over time to define Western theoretical musical systems, whether practical, human, nonhuman, or celestial. This book focuses on the theoretical, theological, philosophical, physical, and...
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  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Policy by Homan, Shane
    Shane Homan

    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Policy

    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Policy is the first thorough analysis of how policy frames the behavior of audiences, industries, and governments in the production and consumption of popular music. Covering a range of industrial and national contexts, this collection assesses how music...
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  • Woo!: Strange Happenings at the Windmill and Other Tangential Rants by Thomson, Dave
    Dave Thomson

    Woo!: Strange Happenings at the Windmill and Other Tangential Rants

    Join Dave Thomson on a riotous night out centred around two important Brixton venues, where he regales us with tales from the not-too-distant past. You know. Pre-pandemic gigs? The old normal. Where you could mosh with strangers, collapse in a sweaty heap, share the...
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  • Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off: Ambient Music's Psychedelic Past by Szabo, Victor
    Victor Szabo

    Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off: Ambient Music's Psychedelic Past

    Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off: Ambient Music's Psychedelic Past rethinks the history and socioaesthetics of ambient music as a popular genre with roots in the psychedelic countercultures of the late twentieth century. Victor Szabo reveals how anglophone audio producers and DJs between the...
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