Hugh Davies’s Electronic Music Documentation 1961–1968.
This paper provides an account and interpretation of Hugh Davies’s electronic music research and documentation from the period 1961–1968. It is argued that Davies, particularly via his International Electronic Music Catalog (published 1968), characterised electronic music for the first time as a tru...
| Publicado en: | Organised Sound Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 111 - 122 |
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Cambridge University Press
Apr2015
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