Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 10:15:43 -0800 (PST) From: Sean Cooper <scooper-AT-best.com> Subject: Re: Olaf and Joachim > Could either of you provide me with some bibliographical references to > books and articles (in English or French) on music of the last twenty > years, especially techno, hiphop, electronica, ambient, industrial, and > other underground musics? I am also working on music and cultural theory, > but I haven't found too much writing about recent underground music. Where > does one look for such texts? Thank you, a lot of the scholarship in this area is still being written, but here are a first few preliminary sources, off the top of my head: * _Rap Attack_ and _Ocean of Sound_, both David Toop (Serpent's Tail) * _Generation Ecstasy_, Simon Reynolds * _More Brighter Than the Sun_, Kodwo Eshun * _The Wire_ magazine * _Black Noise_, Tricia Rose (Wesleyan) eshun draws explicitly on d&g in his otherwise incredibly overwrought book. toop's work is the best of this lot...i'd be interested to hear of others, especially at the journal level, as that tends to be where more cutting edge stuff shows up. sc p.s. a web site i help put together, www.urbansounds.com, is oriented toward developing criticism on underground electronic music. the current issue deals with overlaps between academic computer music and the post-techno experimental underground, and there are of course tons of record reviews which to a greater or lesser extent try to "think music" in some way.
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