on 8/6/02 11:29 AM, Bryan Finoki at finoki@lucasarts.com scrawled:
quoted 8 lines I am curious what books people may be reading these days about music.
> I am curious what books people may be reading these days about music.
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>
> Can you make any suggestions on the topic, of music (electronic) history,
> written by more contemporary writers?
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> Or something you have read recently??
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Dan Sicko's "Techno Rebels" is a great explanation of that motown sound.
Kodwu Eshun's "More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction" is
a great look at electronic music in light of other cultural developments..
one of Eshun's angles is that experimentation in music is Black Science
Fiction. If the prose in that squarepusher spiel that was forwarded to the
list pissed you off don't waste your time with Eshun as he's something of a
gymnast with the pen. It's a great read though.. the methodology and
symbolism of Dr. Octagon, P-funk, Public Enemy, and drexicya (and many
others) get dissected to the point you think he's conducting an autopsy.
It's the most adventurous read I've come across when it comes to these
matters.
Somebody mentioned something about a Jeff Noon text a while back. I haven't
read it but it may be worth investigating.
In terms of a good read that isn't about music, I recommend checking out the
new JG Ballard Novel - "Super Cannes". It's about a prototype gated
community/office park for the corporate elite in Europe that has a dirty
lil' secret that will appeal to the voyeur, the sadist, and the scholar of
class warfare in you. File under "highrise meets rear window".
~g
np.. coil - time machines
--
Greg Smith
http://www.laiad.com
"I don't trust anybody¹s nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of
dissatisfaction and rage. It's a settling of grievances between the present
and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to
violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard pressed to say
something good about their country" - Don Delillo/White Noise
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