{"product_id":"futuromania-electronic-dreams-desiring-machines-and-tomorrows-music-today-paperback","title":"Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines, and Tomorrow's Music Today - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSimon Reynolds\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of writing by Simon Reynolds, centered on music that seemed, in its moment, to prefigure the Future\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Simon Reynolds's first book in eight years is a celebration of music that feels like a taste of tomorrow. Sounds that prefigure pop music's future--the vanguard genres and heroic innovators whose discoveries eventually get accepted by the wider mass audience. But it's also about the way music can stir anticipation for a thrillingly transformed world just around the corner: a future that might be utopian or dystopian, but at least will be radically changed and exhilaratingly other. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Starting with an extraordinary chapter on Giorgio Moroder and Donna Summer, taking in illuminating profiles of Ryuichi Sakamoto, Boards of Canada, Burial, and Daft Punk, and arguing for Auto-Tune as the defining sound of 21st century pop, \u003ci\u003eFuturomania\u003c\/i\u003e shapes over two dozen essays and interviews into a chronological narrative of machine-music from the 1970s to now. Reynolds explores the interface between pop music and science fiction's utopian dreams and nightmare visions, always emphasizing the quirky human individuals abusing the technology as much as the era-defining advances in electronic hardware and digital software. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A tapestry of the scenes and subcultures that have proliferated in that febrile, sexy, and contested space where man meets machine, \u003ci\u003eFuturomania\u003c\/i\u003e is an enthused listening guide that will propel readers towards adventures in sound. There is a lifetime of electronic listening here.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSimon Reynolds\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eEnergy Flash: A Journey through Rave Music and Dance Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlissed Out: The Raptures of Rock, The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellions and Rock and Roll\u003c\/i\u003e (co-written with Joy Press), \u003ci\u003eRip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978 - 1984\u003c\/i\u003e, and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eBring the Noise: Twenty Years of Hip Hop and Hip Rock\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 07, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42701805912160,"sku":"9780306833786","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/futuromania-electronic-dreams-desiring-machines-and-tomorrows-music-today-paperback","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}