Music, Listening, and Modernity

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Who Hears Here?: On Black Music, Pasts and Present (Phono: Black Music and the Global Imagination) (Volume 1)
Who Hears Here?: On Black Music, Pasts and Present (Phono: Black Music and the Global Imagination) (Volume 1) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction
The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction 4.18 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Noise: The Political Economy of Music
Noise: The Political Economy of Music 4.06 avg rating — 948 ratings
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The Soundscape: Our Environment and the Tuning of the World
The Soundscape: Our Environment and the Tuning of the World 4.11 avg rating — 767 ratings
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Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution
Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution 4.04 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Your Playlist Can Change Your Life: 10 Proven Ways Your Favorite Music Can Revolutionize Your Health, Memory, Organization, Alertness and More
Your Playlist Can Change Your Life: 10 Proven Ways Your Favorite Music Can Revolutionize Your Health, Memory, Organization, Alertness and More 3.20 avg rating — 251 ratings
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The Story Of Rock and Soul Music: Album Reviews and Lists
The Story Of Rock and Soul Music: Album Reviews and Lists 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The History of Hip Hop
The History of Hip Hop 3.43 avg rating — 30 ratings
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AI Performance: The Art of Live Automation: The ultimate 'how to' guide in creating stunning, technical and revolutionary live shows for any contemporary musical performer
AI Performance: The Art of Live Automation: The ultimate 'how to' guide in creating stunning, technical and revolutionary live shows for any contemporary musical performer it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Psychophysical Ear: Musical Experiments, Experimental Sounds, 1840-1910 (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)
The Psychophysical Ear: Musical Experiments, Experimental Sounds, 1840-1910 (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology) 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
by: Alex Ross
4.10 avg rating — 15,700 ratings
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Hi-Fi For Low Dough: The Revolution In The Cost Of Hi-Res Audio
Hi-Fi For Low Dough: The Revolution In The Cost Of Hi-Res Audio 3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Introduction to the Sociology of Music
Introduction to the Sociology of Music 3.80 avg rating — 99 ratings
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How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy
How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy 4.24 avg rating — 6,893 ratings
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The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933
The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933 3.84 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age
Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age 3.83 avg rating — 1,132 ratings
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Hearing Cultures: Essays on Sound, Listening and Modernity (Wenner-Gren International Symposium Series)
Hearing Cultures: Essays on Sound, Listening and Modernity (Wenner-Gren International Symposium Series) 3.38 avg rating — 24 ratings
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NOISE
NOISE 3.67 avg rating — 351 ratings
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Sound Unseen: Acousmatic Sound in Theory and Practice
Sound Unseen: Acousmatic Sound in Theory and Practice 4.12 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Why You Love Music: From Mozart to Metallica--The Emotional Power of Beautiful Sounds
Why You Love Music: From Mozart to Metallica--The Emotional Power of Beautiful Sounds 3.77 avg rating — 577 ratings
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Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts
Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts 3.84 avg rating — 209 ratings
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Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio
Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio 3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Wild Soundscapes: Discovering the Voice of the Natural World
Wild Soundscapes: Discovering the Voice of the Natural World really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Listening and Longing: Music Lovers in the Age of Barnum
Listening and Longing: Music Lovers in the Age of Barnum really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Sonic Boom: How Sound Transforms the Way We Think, Feel, and Buy
The Sonic Boom: How Sound Transforms the Way We Think, Feel, and Buy 3.11 avg rating — 216 ratings
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Decomposition: A Music Manifesto
Decomposition: A Music Manifesto 3.44 avg rating — 61 ratings
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I Can Hear You Whisper: An Intimate Journey Through the Science of Sound and Language
I Can Hear You Whisper: An Intimate Journey Through the Science of Sound and Language 3.89 avg rating — 316 ratings
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Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body
Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body 4.12 avg rating — 181 ratings
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Black Soundscapes White Stages: The Meaning of Francophone Sound in the Black Atlantic (The Callaloo African Diaspora Series)
Black Soundscapes White Stages: The Meaning of Francophone Sound in the Black Atlantic (The Callaloo African Diaspora Series) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang & Beyond
Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang & Beyond 4.41 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Spirit into Sound: The Magic of Music
Spirit into Sound: The Magic of Music 3.89 avg rating — 53 ratings
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The Music Libel Against the Jews
The Music Libel Against the Jews 4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World
The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World 3.77 avg rating — 455 ratings
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Broadcasting Modernism
Broadcasting Modernism 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Music and the Power of Sound: The Influence of Tuning and Interval on Consciousness
Music and the Power of Sound: The Influence of Tuning and Interval on Consciousness 4.41 avg rating — 32 ratings
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A Social History of British Broadcasting, Volume 1: 1922-1939, Serving the Nation
A Social History of British Broadcasting, Volume 1: 1922-1939, Serving the Nation it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Wild Soundscapes: Discovering the Voice of the Natural World
Wild Soundscapes: Discovering the Voice of the Natural World really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Listening
Listening 3.88 avg rating — 211 ratings
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Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music
Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music
by: Mark Katz
4.09 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen
Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen 4.17 avg rating — 595 ratings
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Special Sound: The Creation and Legacy of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Special Sound: The Creation and Legacy of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop 4.24 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener
Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener 3.89 avg rating — 156 ratings
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George Fabyan: The Tycoon Who Broke Ciphers, Ended Wars, Manipulated Sound, Built a Levitation Machine, and Organized the Modern Research Center
George Fabyan: The Tycoon Who Broke Ciphers, Ended Wars, Manipulated Sound, Built a Levitation Machine, and Organized the Modern Research Center 4.07 avg rating — 29 ratings
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How Early America Sounded
How Early America Sounded 3.61 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound
Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound 3.62 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919
Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919 4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Book of Music and Nature: An Anthology of Sounds, Words, Thoughts
The Book of Music and Nature: An Anthology of Sounds, Words, Thoughts 4.28 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music
Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music 4.17 avg rating — 1,379 ratings
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Best of NPR's Lost and Found Sound Vol. 1
Best of NPR's Lost and Found Sound Vol. 1 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America
Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America
by: Josh Kun
3.84 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Musical Cognition: A Science of Listening
Musical Cognition: A Science of Listening 3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Listening to Nature: How to Deepen Your Awareness of Nature
Listening to Nature: How to Deepen Your Awareness of Nature 4.11 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us
Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us 4.51 avg rating — 996 ratings
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Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project
Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project
by: Dave Isay
4.29 avg rating — 4,199 ratings
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Listening to the Savage: River Notes and Half-Heard Melodies (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)
Listening to the Savage: River Notes and Half-Heard Melodies (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books) 3.77 avg rating — 22 ratings
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This Is Your Brain on Music
This Is Your Brain on Music 3.89 avg rating — 66,730 ratings
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Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning
Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning 3.64 avg rating — 2,178 ratings
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The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature
The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature 3.70 avg rating — 2,971 ratings
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Music, The Brain, And Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination
Music, The Brain, And Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,097 ratings
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain 3.95 avg rating — 72,833 ratings
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Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism
Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism 3.82 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California: Modern Pleasures in a Postmodern World
Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California: Modern Pleasures in a Postmodern World 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Culture of American College Radio
The Culture of American College Radio 1.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Out on the Wire: Uncovering the Secrets of Radio's New Masters of Story with Ira Glass
Out on the Wire: Uncovering the Secrets of Radio's New Masters of Story with Ira Glass 4.22 avg rating — 1,515 ratings
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Something in the Air: Radio, Rock, and the Revolution That Shaped a Generation
Something in the Air: Radio, Rock, and the Revolution That Shaped a Generation 4.03 avg rating — 118 ratings
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The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe 3.63 avg rating — 1,330 ratings
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Tastes Like Music: 17 Quirks of the Brain and Body
Tastes Like Music: 17 Quirks of the Brain and Body 3.75 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise
Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise 3.31 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Pictures of Sound: One Thousand Years of Educed Audio: 980-1980
Pictures of Sound: One Thousand Years of Educed Audio: 980-1980 4.05 avg rating — 22 ratings
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A Musician's Complete Guide to Sound
A Musician's Complete Guide to Sound 4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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For the Love of Music: A Conductor's Guide to the Art of Listening
For the Love of Music: A Conductor's Guide to the Art of Listening 3.87 avg rating — 263 ratings
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You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters 4.08 avg rating — 22,029 ratings
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The Hum of the World: A Philosophy of Listening
The Hum of the World: A Philosophy of Listening 3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings