Undercurrents: The Hidden Wiring of Modern Music
"Equal parts historical exhumation and agenda-setting exposition, Undercurrents' themes treat music as a medium engaged with contexts and brushed by various tines of culture...The book divulges countless secrets...But Undercurrents' most revealing secret lies in the way it makes margins and headlines part of the same text."—Andy Battaglia, The Onion, 2/26/03"Engrossing..."—Rolling Stone'Rammed full with historical details....Great for those who want to delve deeper into why today's music sounds like it does.' —Straight No Chaser"The facts you learn from Undercurrents will help you navigate your next coctail party, but its concepts may have a more lasting effect: changing the way you listen." —XLR8R"This engrossing collection...illuminates everything from Harry Smith's folk anthologies to sound sculpture to glitch techno....insightful and persuasively argued."—Rolling Stone, April 3, 2003"Undercurrents' 20 essays...draw interesting and intriguing connections with often fervid rhetoric that nonetheless simmers with good insights. Undercurrents is a good book that belongs on the shelf of every maker and maven of adventurous music." Christo