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Soft cover. Zustand: As New. 1st Edition. First published by Verso 2009, 1st printing. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in AS NEW condition. "The Wire is an award-winning, independent magazine renowned for its expert coverage of a vast range of alternative, experimental and underground music. Now that knowledge has been distilled into THE WIRE PRIMERS: a guide to the core recordings of some of the most visionary and inspiring, subversive and radical musicians on the planet, past and present. [] A vast range of music is celebrated and demystified: the avant rock of Captain Beefheart, The Fall and Sonic Youth; the funk of James Brown and Fela Kuti; the future jazz of Sun Ra and Ornette Coleman; and the experimental compositions of John Cage and Stockhausen. In addition, the book surveys and explains key genres and movements, including musique concrete, turntablism, Noise and dubstep. [] Written by leading writers on modern music, such as Stewart Lee, Alan Licht, Edwin Pouncey, Simon Reynolds, Peter Shapiro and John Szwed, THE WIRE PRIMERS is an essential guide to contemporary sounds for any reader looking to dig below the surface of mainstream music." [publisher copy] "The most essential music magazine of the contemporary era."--Forced Exposure. "For 25 years The Wire magazine has been celebrating the sound of cussed eccentricity . . . A true English eccentric . . . it is the curator of a self-sufficient and non-aligned musical world."--Daily Telegraph. "Shining a light on the marginal, the underground and the outside of popular (and semi-popular) music, The Wire has consistently validated and articulated the merit of experimental creativity."--Thurston Moore. "Feeling scared of cutting yourself to ribbons if you tiptoe along the cutting edge towards the unknown? Then allow The Wire to be your benign guide through the superficially impenetrable aural wilderness."--Robert Wyatt. Pristine paperback w/brilliant corners (slight beump on lower back) & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine, quite presentable.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. First published 2002 by Continuum. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in Fine condition. "In a series of essays by some of the best music writers of our time, UNDERCURRENTS identifies the key concepts and underlying themes that have been hardwired into the modern era's most radical musics, ever since Thomas Edison invented the record player. The phonograph, electronics, chance operations, Futurism, Surrealism, the civil rights movement, noise, alternative tuning systems and market forces have all redrawn the map of contemporary sound. UNDERCURRENTS tracks these seismic shifts across a wide range of music including modern composition, free jazz, experimental rock and pop, Industrial, ethnic music, Techno and electronica, and looks at the extraordinary innovations and invented instruments that have passed into obscurity. Chapters include: Erik Davis on the esoteric origins of the phonograph, Ian Penman on how the microphone altered the human voice, David Toop on sound sculpture and improvisation, Peter Shapiro on the use and abuse of the turntable, plus essays on Futurism, drones, glitch electronica, machine rhythms, space rituals, music of the spheres, ecstatic jazz, Harry Smith, the Sonic Arts Union, the Autobahn and more. Many of these essays first appeared as a series in The Wire magazine, which since 1982 has bypassed the music mainstream in search of the most innovative, uncompromising and compelling sounds from all genres across the world. As music listeners have grown increasingly eclectic and adventurous in their tastes, The Wire has emerged as the most authoritative source on modern music. This volume contains new material as well as revised and updated versions of many of the original articles." [publisher copy] "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. "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."--The Onion. "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. Pristine paperback w/brilliant corners & crisp edges (slight yellowing on fore-edge), a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine. Quite presentable.