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Anybody have a tip on a book, or article, or website on the history of electronic music which is not just from, but includes, the classical new music perspective? I used Electronic Sound by Joel Chadabe and the Computer Music Tutorial by Curtis Roads.The Chadabe is good in covering the new music perspective, but the kids complained that it drops names all over the place without explaining who or what. The kids also complained that the Roads is too heavy to carry. Haha! I do like both of these books, but do want to incorporate more non new music electronic music into my class. Also, this would be for a strictly History of Electronic Music class. I used the Chadabe and Roads for an Intro to Electronic Music class which focused more on making electronic music.
