Sound art & sound design
1. 
The Book of Music and Nature: An Anthology of Sounds, Words, Thoughts
by:
David Rothenberg
4.28 avg rating — 39 ratings 3. 
The Political Possibility of Sound: Fragments of Listening
by:
Salomé Voegelin
3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings 
5. 
The Tone of Our Times: Sound, Sense, Economy, and Ecology
by:
Frances Dyson
3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings 5. 
7. 
The Sonic Boom: How Sound Transforms the Way We Think, Feel, and Buy
by:
Joel Beckerman
3.11 avg rating — 216 ratings 9. 
Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art
by:
Salomé Voegelin
3.74 avg rating — 110 ratings 9. 
Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio 3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings
11. 
Avant-Garde Theatre Sound: Staging Sonic Modernity
by:
Adrian Curtin
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 
13. 
The Plenitude: Creativity, Innovation, and Making Stuff (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)
by:
Rich Gold
3.65 avg rating — 150 ratings 
15. 
The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction
by:
Jonathan Sterne
4.18 avg rating — 189 ratings 15. 
Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
by:
David Suisman
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 17. 
The Art of Theatrical Sound Design: A Practical Guide
by:
Victoria Deiorio
3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings 
19. 
Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction 3.97 avg rating — 370 ratings
21. 
Wired for Music: A Search for Health and Joy Through the Science of Sound
by:
Adriana Barton
3.88 avg rating — 272 ratings 23. 
Dramaturgy of Sound in the Avant-garde and Postdramatic Theatre
by:
Mladen Ovadija
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 23. 
The Flute and Flute-Playing in Acoustical, Technical, and Artistic Aspects
by:
Theobald Boehm
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings 
27. 
Designed for Dancing: How Midcentury Records Taught America to Dance
by:
Janet Borgerson
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 
