Review of Dave Tompkins. 2010. How to Wreck a Nice Beach. Chicago and Brooklyn: Stop Smiling/Melville House. Steve Goodman. 2010. Sonic Warfare. Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT Press.
At first glance, Dave Tompkins’s How to Wreck a Nice Beach and Steve Goodman’s Sonic Warfare would seem to have a lot in common. Both books feature the creative “abuse” of military technology by musicians, an abiding appreciation for Afro-sonic futurisms, prose styles at times so idiosyncratic as t...
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Columbia University Libraries
2010-09-01
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| Series: | Current Musicology |
| Online Access: | https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/article/view/5192 |