Online Resources

• George Crumb's Vox Balaenae, (Voice of the Whale). Video on YouTube.
• Who Sampled. "The ultimate database of sampled music, cover songs, and remixes." whosampled.com.
• Peter Maxwell Davies's website. maxopus.com.
• Peter Maxwell Davies's obituary by Margalit Fox, "Peter Maxwell Davies, Contrarian British Composer, Dies at 81" New York Times, March 14, 2016, available via nytimes.com
• Kagel's Ludwig Van, film. The section showing the room covered in music starts at 25:35. Video on YouTube.
• John Zorn and Naked City perform Speedfreaks. Video on YouTube.
• Jonathan Sterne's webpage. Contains links to his scholarly work on sound studies, mp3s, and other recording technologies. sterneworks.org.

Other composers to explore

• George Benjamin (b. 1960 ) listen to his opera Written on the Skin (2012). Excerpt available on YouTube.

Additional Readings

• Bijsterveld, Karin and José van Dijck. Sound Souvenirs: Audio Technologies, Memory and Cultural Practices (Amsterdam University Press, 2009).
• Katz, Mark. “Music in 1s and 0s: the Art and Politics of Sampling, ” in Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004), 137-157.
• Kutschke, Beata and Barley Norton. Music and Protest in 1968. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
• Miller, Kiri. “Jacking the Dial: Radio, Race, and Place in Grand Theft Auto,” Ethnomusicology 51(3): 402-438.
• Oja, Carol. Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
• Williams, Alastair. Music in Germany Since 1968. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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