Història de la música del segle XX (L'electrònica)

In this volume, Pau Riba offers us a history of twentieth-century music based on the invention of electricity and the possibility of controlling sound as never before. From here will emerge a whole series of formal and conceptual revolutions that will have creative freedom as a goal, as well as a very powerful industry that will embrace countless fields. This is the premise of a branching narrative, where the author reflects on youth culture, counterculture, how the system ends up assimilating it, and what is left of it all. When Pau Riba talks about Erik Satie, hippie utopia, punk, the invention of radio, the discovery of LSD or the Throbbing Gristle, he does it as if he were an old friend, with a fresh tone not lacking in irony, and bad milk when it touches. This work is presented as a cathedral, the most ambitious book by an author who has been a pioneer in almost everything he has done.