Undercurrents
Subtitle: the hidden wiring of modern music
By: edited by Rob Young.
Contributors: Young, Rob, 1968-
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Other titles: Wire.
Notes: Includes discography, bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Electrification. Recording angels: the esoteric origins of the phonograph / by Erik Davis ; On the mic: how amplification changed the voice for good / by Ian Penman ; The jerrybuilt future: the Sonic Arts Union, Once Group and Mev's Live Electronics / by Christoph Cox ; Worship the glitch: digital music, electronic disturbance / by Rob Young; title: Occultism. The eternal drone: good vibrations, ancient to future / by Marcus Boon ; Slapping Pythagoras: the battle for the music of the spheres / by Rob Young ; The ragged trousered anthologist: the secret worlds of Harry Smith / by Peter Shapiro and Philip Smith ; The solar myth approach: the live space ritual: Sun Ra, Stockhausen, P-Funk, Hawkwind / by Ken Hollings; title: Mechanism. Humans, are they really necessary? sound art, automata and musical sculpture / by David Toop ; Automating the beat: the robotics of rhythm / by Peter Shapiro ; The Autobahn goes on forever: kings of the road: the motorik pulse of Kraftwerk and Neu! / by Biba Kopf ; Rock concrète: counterculture plugs in to the academy / by Edwin Pouncey ; Deck wreckers: the turntable as instrument / by Peter Shapiro; title: Freedom. Destroy all music: the futurists' art of noises / by Mark Sinker ; The limits of language: textual apocalypse: Merz, Lettrism, sound poetry / by Julian Cowley ; The music of chance: musical dice men from John Cage to John Zorn / by Andy Hamilton ; Smiling faces sometimes: soul music's grinners versus the backstabbers / by Peter Shapiro ; Frames of freedom: improvisation, otherness and the limits of spontaneity / by David Toop ; Generation ecstasy: New York's free jazz continuum / by Tom Roe.