Noise, Music & Sound
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The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction
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Jonathan Sterne
4.18 avg rating — 189 ratings 
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Literary Music: Writing Music in Contemporary Fiction
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Stephen Benson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings 
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Modernist Invention: Media Technology and American Poetry
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Edward Allen
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 8. 
Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art
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Salomé Voegelin
3.74 avg rating — 110 ratings 
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Modernism's Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics
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Ben Glaser
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
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Alex Ross
4.10 avg rating — 15,703 ratings 
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Untwisting the Serpent: Modernism in Music, Literature, and Other Arts
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Daniel Albright
3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings 
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Hubbub: Filth, Noise, and Stench in England, 1600-1770
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Emily Cockayne
3.96 avg rating — 251 ratings 19. 
Sounds of the Metropolis: The 19th Century Popular Music Revolution in London, New York, Paris and Vienna
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Derek B. Scott
4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings 
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Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
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David Suisman
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 23. 
Sound and Modernity in the Literature of London, 1880-1918
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Patricia Pye
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 24. 
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Putting Modernism Together: Literature, Music, and Painting, 1872–1927
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Daniel Albright
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings 25. 
Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music
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Greg Milner
4.17 avg rating — 1,379 ratings 
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Listening through the Noise: The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music
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Joanna Demers
3.97 avg rating — 117 ratings 
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The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans
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Cynthia Barnett
4.06 avg rating — 544 ratings 34. 
Pictures of Sound: One Thousand Years of Educed Audio: 980-1980
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Patrick Feaster
4.05 avg rating — 22 ratings 35. 
Unusual Sounds: The Hidden History of Library Music
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David Hollander
4.43 avg rating — 30 ratings 36. 
American Country: Bluegrass, Honky-Tonk, and Crossover Sounds
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Lloyd Sachs
3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings 
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The Talkies: American Cinema's Transition to Sound, 1926-1931
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Donald Crafton
4.16 avg rating — 31 ratings 42. 
The Age of Electroacoustics: Transforming Science and Sound (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)
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Roland Wittje
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 43. 
Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music
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David Suisman
3.88 avg rating — 68 ratings 44. 
The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926-1930
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Scott Eyman
4.26 avg rating — 267 ratings 45. 
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The Book of Music and Nature: An Anthology of Sounds, Words, Thoughts
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David Rothenberg
4.28 avg rating — 39 ratings 
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Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow 4.22 avg rating — 95 ratings
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The Sound of the Dove: Singing in Appalachian Primitive Baptist Churches really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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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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Muscle Shoals Sound Studio: How the Swampers Changed American Music 3.58 avg rating — 160 ratings
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We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
by:
Craig Werner
4.03 avg rating — 300 ratings 57. 
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Play It Loud: An Epic History of the Style, Sound, & Revolution of the Electric Guitar
by:
Brad Tolinski
4.27 avg rating — 808 ratings 59. 
Kika Kila: How the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Changed the Sound of Modern Music
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John W. Troutman
4.04 avg rating — 26 ratings 60. 
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Encyclopedia Of Rhythms (Evolved According to the Schillinger Theory of Int) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Jazz and Cocktails: Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir
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Jans B Wager
3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings 66. 
Future Sounds: The Story of Electronic Music from Stockhausen to Skrillex
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David Stubbs
3.83 avg rating — 371 ratings 67. 
Wired for Music: A Search for Health and Joy Through the Science of Sound
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Adriana Barton
3.88 avg rating — 272 ratings 68. 
Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction 3.97 avg rating — 370 ratings
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I Can Hear You Whisper: An Intimate Journey Through the Science of Sound and Language
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Lydia Denworth
3.89 avg rating — 317 ratings 70. 
Understanding Physics: Volume 1: Motion, Sound and Heat
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Isaac Asimov
4.33 avg rating — 121 ratings 71. 
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Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound
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David Rothenberg
3.62 avg rating — 154 ratings 73. 
The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World
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Trevor J. Cox
3.77 avg rating — 455 ratings 
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One Grand Noise: Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World (Caribbean Studies Series) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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It's Just the Normal Noises: Marcus, Guralnick, No Depression, and the Mystery of Americana Music (New American Canon)
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Timothy Gray
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 77. 
A Cellarful of Noise: The Autobiography of the Man Who Made the Beatles With a New Companion Narrative (Rhino Rediscovery)
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Brian Epstein
3.82 avg rating — 560 ratings 78. 
Mek Some Noise: Gospel Music and the Ethics of Style in Trinidad (Music of the African Diaspora) (Volume 11)
by:
Timothy Rommen
3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings 79. 
The Art of Noise: Conversations with Great Songwriters
by:
Daniel Rachel
3.83 avg rating — 71 ratings 
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Revolutions in American Music: Three Decades That Changed a Country and Its Sounds
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Michael Broyles
3.67 avg rating — 21 ratings 82. 
The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry
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Diane Pecknold
3.91 avg rating — 33 ratings 
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How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond
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John Powell
4.02 avg rating — 4,543 ratings 87. 
This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You
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Susan Rogers
3.82 avg rating — 3,684 ratings 88. 
Sounds of the New Deal: The Federal Music Project in the West
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Peggy Seeger
4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings 
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The Motown Album: The Sound of Young America
by:
Ben Fong-Torres
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings 92. 
After the Silents: Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926-1934 (Film and Culture Series)
by:
Michael Slowik
4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings 93. 
Sensing the Rhythm: Finding My Voice in a World Without Sound
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Mandy Harvey
3.94 avg rating — 286 ratings 94. 
Revolutions in Sound: Warner Bros. Records, the First Fifty Years
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Warren Zanes
3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings 
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Nightingales in Berlin: Searching for the Perfect Sound
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David Rothenberg
3.53 avg rating — 19 ratings 98. 
Wherever the Sound Takes You: Heroics and Heartbreak in Music Making
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David Rowell
4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings 99. 
Bluegrass in Baltimore: The Hard Drivin' Sound and Its Legacy
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Tim Newby
4.33 avg rating — 24 ratings 100. 
The Tao of Music: Sound Psychology Using Music to Change Your Life
by:
John M. Ortiz
3.89 avg rating — 132 ratings