Holiday Music Fare

[Dave Monroe]

... a couple of recently published volumes it seems some of you at least
might prove interested in ...

Prendergast, Mark.  The Ambient Century: The Revolution of Sound
    from Mahler to Trance.   Bloomsbury, 2000.

Shapiro, Mark, ed.  Modulations: Electronic Music: Throbbing Words
    on Sounds.  New York: D.A.P./Capirinha, 2000.

... and, while I'm at it, one from the vaults ...

Toop, David.  Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and
    Imaginary Worlds.  London: Serpents Tail, 1996.

... the Shapiro has, among several others, an essay by Simon Reynolds on
so-called "krautrock" (kosmische muzik in Germany?  Have wondered how
that nomencalture is taken in Germany ...); the Prendergast seems to
cover just about everything; there's an essay by Toop on hip-hop in the
Shapiro as well ...