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Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening – A Cultural Chronicle from Ancient Oratory to Our Amplified Age
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Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise
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The Talkies: American Cinema's Transition to Sound, 1926-1931
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The Age of Electroacoustics: Transforming Science and Sound (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)
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The Politics of Recorded Sound
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Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
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Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music
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The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926-1930
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Moving Image and Sound Collections for Archivists
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Best of NPR's Lost and Found Sound Vol. 1
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The Book of Music and Nature: An Anthology of Sounds, Words, Thoughts
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V-Discs: A History and Discography (Discographies, 5)
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360 Sound: The Columbia Records Story
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Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music
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Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow
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Black Soundscapes White Stages: The Meaning of Francophone Sound in the Black Atlantic
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The Sound of the Dove: Singing in Appalachian Primitive Baptist Churches
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Verve: The Sound of America
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The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction
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Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio
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Muscle Shoals Sound Studio: How the Swampers Changed American Music
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We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
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Lost Sound: The Forgotten Art of Radio Storytelling
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Play It Loud: An Epic History of the Style, Sound, & Revolution of the Electric Guitar
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Kika Kila: How the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Changed the Sound of Modern Music
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The Ghost Army of World War II: How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects, and Other Audacious Fakery
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The Sound of Navajo Country: Music, Language, and Diné Belonging
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How Early America Sounded
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Worlds of Sound: The Story of Smithsonian Folkways
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Jazz and Cocktails: Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir
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Pictures of Sound: One Thousand Years of Educed Audio: 980-1980
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Future Sounds: The Story of Electronic Music from Stockhausen to Skrillex
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Unusual Sounds: The Hidden History of Library Music
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Wired for Music: A Search for Health and Joy Through the Science of Sound
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Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction
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The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans
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I Can Hear You Whisper: An Intimate Journey Through the Science of Sound and Language
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Understanding Physics: Volume 1: Motion, Sound and Heat
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George Fabyan: The Tycoon Who Broke Ciphers, Ended Wars, Manipulated Sound, Built a Levitation Machine, and Organized the Modern Research Center
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Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound
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The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World
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Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music
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One Grand Noise: Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World (Caribbean Studies Series)
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It's Just the Normal Noises: Marcus, Guralnick, No Depression, and the Mystery of Americana Music (New American Canon)
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A Cellarful of Noise: The Autobiography of the Man Who Made the Beatles With a New Companion Narrative (Rhino Rediscovery)
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Mek Some Noise: Gospel Music and the Ethics of Style in Trinidad (Music of the African Diaspora) (Volume 11)
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The Art of Noise: Conversations with Great Songwriters
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Junkyard Jam Band: DIY Musical Instruments and Noisemakers
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Revolutions in American Music: Three Decades That Changed a Country and Its Sounds
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The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry
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The Brill Building: Sound and Style in a New York Hit Song Factory
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Girl Groups: The Story of a Sound
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Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound
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How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond
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This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You
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Sounds of the New Deal: The Federal Music Project in the West
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Wild Music: Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine
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MPLS Sound
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The Motown Album: The Sound of Young America
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After the Silents: Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926-1934 (Film and Culture Series)
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Sensing the Rhythm: Finding My Voice in a World Without Sound
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Revolutions in Sound: Warner Bros. Records, the First Fifty Years
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New Images of Musical Sound
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The Cincinnati Sound
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Nightingales in Berlin: Searching for the Perfect Sound
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Wherever the Sound Takes You: Heroics and Heartbreak in Music Making
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Bluegrass in Baltimore: The Hard Drivin' Sound and Its Legacy
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The Tao of Music: Sound Psychology Using Music to Change Your Life
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Foreign Bodies in the River of Sound - Seeking Identity and Irish Traditional Music
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Brian Eno: His Music And The Vertical Color Of Sound
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Silenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth
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Sound System: The Political Power of Music
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Playlist: The Rebels and Revolutionaries of Sound
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A Musician's Complete Guide to Sound
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Why You Love Music: From Mozart to Metallica--The Emotional Power of Beautiful Sounds
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The High & Lonesome Sound: The Legacy of Roscoe Holcomb
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The Making of Pet Sounds
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The Mysticism of Sound and Music: The Sufi Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Esquivel! Space-Age Sound Artist
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Motown: The Sound Of Young America
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Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran
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American Country: Bluegrass, Honky-Tonk, and Crossover Sounds
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Got to Be Something Here: The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound
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Sounds of the South
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The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America
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Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919
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Music and the Power of Sound: The Influence of Tuning and Interval on Consciousness
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The Cosmobiography of Sun Ra: The Sound of Joy is Enlightening
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Spirit into Sound: The Magic of Music
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The Sonic Boom: How Sound Transforms the Way We Think, Feel, and Buy
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Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century
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Sound Man
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The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times
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The Soundscape: Our Environment and the Tuning of the World
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I Hear You Knockin : The Sound of New Orleans Rhythm and Blues
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The Jefferson Airplane and the San Francisco Sound
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Bluegrass Breakdown: The Making Of The Old Southern Sound
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Voices of the Wild: Animal Songs, Human Din, and the Call to Save Natural Soundscapes (The Future Series)
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Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales
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Wild Soundscapes: Discovering the Voice of the Natural World
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