Ocean of Sound Ambient Sound and Radical Listening in the Age of Communication - Serpent's Tail Classics

David Toop's extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Sun Ra, Erik Satie, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk and Brian Wilson. Beginning in 1889 at the Paris exposition when Debussy first heard Javanese music performed, Ocean of Sound channels the competing instincts of 20th century music into an exhilarating, path-breaking account of ambient sound. 'A meditation on the development of modern music, there's no single term that is adequate to describe what Toop has accomplished here ... mixing interviews, criticism, history, and memory, Toop moves seamlessly between sounds, styles, genres, and eras' Pitchfork's '60 Favourite Music Books'

ISBN:	9781788160308
Publisher:	Profile
Imprint:	Serpent's Tail
Published date:	02 Aug 2018
DEWEY:	780.9
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Sales rank:	7184
Number of pages:	xvi, 304
Weight:	252g
Height:	128mm
Width:	198mm
Spine width:	22mm

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