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Collected here for the first time are more than 150 music posters created by graphic artist Jason Munn of "The Small Stakes" fame. Jason Munn's silk-screened posters are unique among the popular modern music poster genre in their graphic and conceptual elegance. With a foreword by "Death Cab for Cutie"'s Nick Harmer, and an interview with prolific poster artist Jay Ryan, this book is a beautiful celebration of art and music with distinctive posters of beloved bands, including Beck, Built to Spill, The Decembrists, Modest Mouse, the National, and many more.

Although music is as intrinsic to human life as the air we breathe, we must never fall for the line that it is a universal language. Music is neither universal, nor a language.From an infants first experimental sounds to the voice of Elvis via Hildegard of Bingen, Beethoven and bebop The Shortest History of Music sets out to understand what exactly music is, and why humans are irresistibly drawn to making it.Ranging across millennia, Andrew Ford explores musics great themes: writing it down and recording it; paying for it and making it modern. With brilliant insight, he traces the story of the symphony and the opera, blues and jazz; the oral traditions of folk singers and chain gangs; and the lives of the greats Bach and Mozart, Clara Schumann and Schoenberg, Charlie Parker and Nina Simone.From lullabies to national anthems, songlines to streaming, this is a sparkling account of what music has meant at different times and in different places.

Music is shaped by the science of sound How can music an artform have anything to do with science Yet there are myriad ways in which the two are intertwined from the basics of music theory and the design of instruments to hi fi systems and how the brain processes music Science writer Andrew May traces the surprising connections between science and music from the theory of sound waves to the way musicians use mathematical algorithms to create music The most obvious impact of science on music can be seen in the way electronic technology has revolutionised how we create record and listen to music Technology has also provided new insights into the effects that different music has on the brain to the extent that some algorithms can now predict our reactions with uncanny accuracy which raises a worrying question how long will it be before AI can create music on a par with humans