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How to wreck a nice beach : the vocoder from World War II to hip-hop : the machine speaks  Cover Image Book Book

How to wreck a nice beach : the vocoder from World War II to hip-hop : the machine speaks / Dave Tompkins.

Tompkins, Dave. (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781933633886
  • ISBN: 1933633883
  • Physical Description: 334 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: Brooklyn, NY : Melville House ; [2010]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Axis of eavesdroppers -- Nearly enough like that which game them birth -- Indestructible speech -- Vocoder Kommissar -- As it is, on Mars -- Color out of space -- The sacred thunder croak -- Interdiction -- Vietnam, verbot and clear -- Think he said her name was Voodoo-on-a-stick -- Cool, as long as nobody hears it -- Eat a planet and go on to the next one -- Decompression -- Epilogue: I was like -- Appendix. Future Beat Alliance ; Auto-tune : it's not the end of the world ; How to recognize a Peachtree freak : 80 songs with vocoder.
Subject: Electronic music > History and criticism.
Vocoder.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Camden County Library.

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Camden County Library District - Camdenton 786.74 Tompkins (Text) 31320002926264 Adult Nonfiction Available -


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