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Book

The Wire primers : a guide to modern music

Author

Rob Young

Call Number

  • 781.66 W798 (CEN)

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Publication Information

London : Verso, 2009.

Physical Description

198 p. : ill. ; 19 x 20 cm.

Contents

  • Avant Rock: Captain Beefheart / The Fall / Noise / No Wave / Sonic Youth / Tropicálica / Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention / Funk, hiphop & beyond: James Brown / Grime / Dubstep / Fela Kuti / Turntablism / Jazz & improvisation: AMM / Derek Bailey / Ornette Coleman / Fire Music / Sun Ra / Modern composition: John Cage / Morton Feldman / Musique Concrète & Early electronic Music / Karlheinz Stockhausen / Iannis Xenakis

Subjects

Added Authors

Rob Young