well, this is somewhat OT as it doesn't have to do with electronic music
in particular, but one of my favorite music books is
"Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since
Beethoven's Time" by Nicolas Slonimsky
in it you get to read reviewers of the day going off about how awful,
boring, or unoriginal just about every major composer in the western
tradition is... "Among the eminent reviewers are George Bernard Shaw,
Virgil Thomson, Hans von Bulow, Friedrich Nietzsche, Eduard Hanslick, Olin
Downes, Deems Taylor, Paul Rosenfeld, and Oscar Wilde."
j
On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Bryan Finoki wrote:
quoted 19 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.
>
> I am currently reading a pretty good overview of the 'History of Sound in
> the Arts' by Douglas Kahn, and have not yet finished 'Muzak - history of
> elevator Music' by Joseph Lanza. But both are definitely worth the read.
> Simon Reynolds 'Generation Ectasy' was a nice read.
>
> Can you make any suggestions on the topic, of music (electronic) history,
> written by more contemporary writers?
>
> Or something you have read recently??
>
> thx
> b.
>
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