The Ambient Century : From Mahler to Moby–The Evolution of Sound in the Electronic Age
Mark Prendergast
2003
Bloombury USA
$19.95
500 pp.

Ambient Century is an encyclopedic history of ambient music that actually lives up to the media snippets on the jacket. The lengthy history is encylopedic because it both exhaustively traces the evolution of ambient music and the information is presented in entry form, with each entry explaining a specific musician or band. As the title suggests, it begins with Mahler and closes with Moby, which should be enough range, temporarlly and musically, to satisfy anyone interested in this distinctively 20th century type of music.
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