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Book Review: Ambient Century By Mark Prendergast
The Ambient Century : From Mahler to Moby–The Evolution of Sound in the Electronic Age
Mark Prendergast
2003
Bloombury USA
$19.95
500 pp.
Ambient Century is an encyclopedic history of ambient music that actually lives up to the media snippets on the jacket. The lengthy history is encylopedic because it both exhaustively traces the evolution of ambient music and the information [...]
Re: Attacking Recording Technology
Generally, debating and analyzing the affects recorded music has had on society is left to avant-garde musicians and academics, but the release of several books detailing the history of recorded music has changed this. The consequences of Edison’s development of the phonograph has, as of late, gained a larger interest in the public eye. Unfortunately, [...]
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