Books
From the esoteric to the sonic, tQ’s bookshelf revealed
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Scene And Not Heard: Jesse Rifkin’s Playlist For NYC’s Lost Music Spaces
The new book by Jesse Rifkin, *This Must Be the Place* tracks the rise and fall of music scenes and the places that gave them succour. In his author playlist, he picks out 11 key tracks that exemplify those scenes, from the Greenwich Village folk revival to early 00s Brooklyn noise-rock, via loft jazz, punk rock, hip hop and more
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Better Red Than Dead: Towards A Socialist Black Metal
The history of black metal has been marred by lurid tales of church-burning fascists and the far-right represent an ongoing blot on the scene, but as *Tonight It’s A World We Bury* author Bill Peel argues, black metal remains a site of contestation with much to offer to left thought
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Noises In The System: Experimental San Diego Playlist By Bill Perrine
To accompany today’s extract from *Alien Territory: An Experimental, Radical & Irrelevant Playlist from 1970s San Diego*, author Bill Perrine has curated a special playlist of off-beat and oft-neglected music from the book, featuring essential tracks by Pauline Oliveros, Diamanda Galas, Harry Partch, Kenneth Gaburo, Peter Gordon, and more
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A Wide Open Place: UCSD & The Birth Of Pauline Oliveros’ Sonic Meditations
In an exclusive extract from his new book, *Alien Territory: Radical, Experimental, & Irrelevant Music in 1970s San Diego*, author Bill Perrine describes the heady atmosphere of early 1970s California that led to a new era in the work of one of America's most adventurous composers
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Neither Reality Nor Memory: Aida Amoako On Black Artists’ Use Of Found Materials
With the publication of her new book *As We See It*, about the groundbreaking work of a new wave of Black artists, Aida Amoako takes a close look at three artists taking collage and appropriation in a whole new direction
