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• Mood Machine

  the Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist

  Pelly, Liz,

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  This book explores how Spotify rose to its dominant place in the music field and how its questionable practices around artist payments, algorithms, and user data are worth looking into.

• Top Eight

  How MySpace Changed Music

  Tedder, Michael,

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  in the early 2000’s internet era, Myspace was a revolutionary way for bands to get their music to people around the world. This book explores how this early social media site connected people to music like never before and paved the way for future…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Futuromania

  Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines, & Tomorrow's Music Today

  Reynolds, Simon, 1963-

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  This is a historical look at how man and machine have melded to make music for multiple decades

• Spotify Teardown

  Inside the Black Box of Streaming Music

  Eriksson, Maria, 1988-

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  When it first launched, Spotify was seen as the lawful answer to the music piracy problem. Now that it has seen over a decade of dominance and success, that theory is being questioned as individuals dig into Spotify’s business practices.

• The Speed of Sound

  Breaking the Barrier Between Music and Technology

  Dolby, Thomas,

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  New wave musician, software entrepreneur, and music professor, Thomas Dolby discusses his role in music and tech in the 1980s and onward.

• To Feel the Music

  a Songwriter's Mission to Save High-quality Audio

  Young, Neil, 1945-

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  Folk-rock legend Neil Young discusses how low quality digital music files have deprived us from quality listening experiences and proposes new tech-based solutions for increased audio quality.

• Uproot

  Travels in Twenty-first-century Music and Digital Culture

  Clayton, Jace (Musician)

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  This is the true story of how new digital music formats allowed a DJ to go from being virtually unknown to a superstar, traveling the world to play shows!

• Make Your Own Rules

  Stories and Hard-earned Advice From a Creator in the Digital Age

  Huang, Andrew (Musician),

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  The internet opened all kinds of opportunities, and challenges, for creative endeavors. This book offers advice for ways to succeed in music during the digital age.

• Decomposition

  a Music Manifesto

  Durkin, Andrew,

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  This interesting and studious look into originality in music shows how technology plays an important role in music collaboration and what this could mean for copyright laws.

• The Spotify Play

  How CEO and Founder Daniel Ek Beat Apple, Google, and Amazon in the Race for Audio Dominance

  Carlsson, Sven, 1986-

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  This book shows how Spotify CEO, Daneil Ek, beat the odds, and a number of formidable tech rivals in Apple, Google, and Amazon, to launch the world’s most successful music streaming service.

• Wired for Music

  a Search for Health and Joy Through the Science of Sound

  Barton, Adriana (Journalist)

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  Most humans love music, but why? Turns out the reason is a complex equation involving biology, anthropology, and neuroscience!

• How Music Works

  Byrne, David, 1952-

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  David Byrne of the Talking Heads discusses his career as well as a history of recorded music. He discusses how technology and recording technology have changed over the years and influenced the kind of music being made.