Remixology: Tracing the Dub Diaspora – Paul Sullivan (Reaktion Books/ Newsouth Books)
I must admit I was pretty excited when I opened this book for the first…
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DJ Culture in the Mix: Power, Technology, and Social Change in Electronic Dance Music – Edited by Bernardo Attias, Anna Gavanas, Hillegonda Rietveld (Bloomsbury)
This important book proactively puts forward DJing as an established and constantly evolving culture, and…
Smile by Luis Sanchez (33 1/3/ Bloomsbury)
This book on the Beach Boys, or Brian Wilson’ long lost album is something of…
Dust and Grooves : Adventures in Record Collecting – Photographs & Art Direction (& Interviews) Eilon Paz – Editor Sheila Burgel (Dust and Grooves)
Eilon Paz used to be an amateur DJ in Tel Aviv, as well as a…
REVIEW OF LAURA RUSSELLS TRANSLATION (2013) OF “RESEARCH ON THE THEORY OF MUSICAL EQUILIBRATION (die Strebetendenz- Theorie)’
REVIEW OF LAURA RUSSELLS TRANSLATION (2013) OF “RESEARCH ON THE THEORY OF MUSICAL EQUILIBRATION (die…
33 1/3 : Flood – S. Alexander Reed and Philip Sandifer (Continuum Books/Bloomsbury Publishing)
I’ve had a long and complicated relationship with They Might Be Giants. Like many people…
Composing For The Cinema: The Theory and Praxis of Music In Film: Ennio Morricone & Sergio Miceli (Scarecrow/ In Books)
So the maestro has written a book on the dark arts of film composition. Well…
Twenty Jazz Funk Greats – Drew Daniel (Bloomsbury)
From the very outset of this review I have to confess a fondness for the…
Verve: The Sound of America – Richard Havers (Thames & Hudson)
There are coffee table books and there is Verve: The Sound of America. It’s a…
Signifying Rappers – David Foster Wallace & Mark Costello (Penguin)
Any awake or advanced readers in the 1990′, specifically in the USA, might have found…
Southern Soul Blues – David Whiteis (University of Illinois/ Footprint Books)
Do the names Denise LaSalle, Bobby Rush, T.K Soul, Willie Clayton, Sir Charles Jones, or…
The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds – John Higgs (Phoenix Books/ Hachette)
Every now and then a music group comes along that makes you sit up and…
Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage by Albert Glinsky (University of Illinois Press/ Footprint Books)
Once in a while a creative genius comes along and revolutionises preconceived practices. The early…
33 1/3: Paul’s Boutique – Dan LeRoy (Continuum/ Bloomsbury Publishing)
In the 1993 book “Will Pop Eat Itself?” Jeremy Beadle attempted to interrogate the ever-shifting…
David Byrne – How Music Works (Cannongate/ Allen & Unwin)
Second editions, in the book world, often have revisions and “How Music Works’ is not…