Screen LibraryDancing to the drum machine : how electronic percussion conquered the world /
"The never-before told story of drum machines, from their primitive beginnings to their Eighties dominance to the ways they're still changing music today"--
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Bloomsbury Academic,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2023. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"The never-before told story of drum machines, from their primitive beginnings to their Eighties dominance to the ways they're still changing music today"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xxiii, 301 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes index. |
| ISBN: |
9781501367274 1501367277 9781501367267 1501367269 |
| Index Number: | ML1092 |
| CLC: | J628.9-09 |
| Call Number: | J628.9-09/L619 |
| Contents: |
Timing is Everything -- From Boats to Babies : How Drum Machines Began -- The Rhythm Aces -- Beat Brothers : Sly Stone and J.J. Cale -- "The Machines Are Fighting Back" -- Teutonic Sonics : Germany and Programmed Rhythm -- Turn the Beat Around : Eno, Disco and the Drum Machine -- Our Drum Machine Could Be Your Band -- The Drum Machines That Weren't -- Punch the Clock : The Joy and Pain of Drum Programming -- Without Me, You Would Not Even Have Thought of Writing This Book -- Give the (Electronic) Drummer Some -- Inside and Outside the Box : The Linn Revolution -- "Have You Seen This New Drum Machine? Shit!" -- 808 State -- Hip Hop's Electric Guitar -- Worker Bees of the DMX -- Destination Emulation -- Mr. K's Last Laugh -- The Mammals Arrive : The Linn 9000 and the End of the Drum Machine -- Computer Love -- Time Out of Time -- Appendix. |