''Modulations: A History of Electronic Music: Throbbing Words on Sound'' is a 2000 book edited by
Peter Shapiro. It is a companion piece to the documentary film
Modulations: Cinema for the Ear.
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The Music Documentary: Acid Rock to Electropop - Benjamin Halligan, Robert Edgar, Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs - 2013 Page 193 1136311041- 4 For more on the role electronic instruments played in the development of electronic music see also the edited volume that accompanied the documentary: Peter Shapiro (ed.), Modulations: A History of Electronic Music: Throbbing Words on.]
The book features Rob Young on the pioneers of
electronic music
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, Simon Reynolds on
krautrock
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, Peter Shapiro on disco & post-punk,
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on
house music
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,
David Toop
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on
hip hop, Mike Rubin on
techno music
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, Chris Sharp on
Drum and bass
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jungle, Tony Marcus on
ambient music
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, Kurt Reighley on
downtempo
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, and Michael Berk on the
technology of electronic music.
References
2000 non-fiction books
Music books
Electronic music
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