How Music Got Free

How Music Got Free

By
Stephen Witt
Stephen Witt
2015 • 306 pages

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359 books

Nonfiction

Nowenen
Alexander
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Обезьяны, нейроны и душа
The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
The Year of Living Biblically
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
The Grand Design
No Logo

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55 books

History

Nowenen
Alexander
Columbine
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Time Reborn
The Trouble with Physics

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32 books

Sociology

Nowenen
Alexander
The Trouble with Physics
The Drunkard's Walk
No Logo
Columbine
The Year of Living Biblically
Letters to a Young Contrarian
How Music Got Free

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31 books

Economics

Nowenen
Alexander
No Logo
How Music Got Free
Economics in One Lesson 1st edition by Henry Hazlitt (2008) Hardcover
Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street
Empty Planet
The return of depression economics and the crisis of 2008
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics

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5 books

Technology

Nowenen
Alexander
Packing for Mars
Thing Explainer
Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy
How Music Got Free
The Shallows

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83 books

Music

chrisnerd97
Chris
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
How equal temperament ruined harmony
Music
Composing Capital: Classical Music in the Neoliberal Era
The Music Lesson
Groove: A Phenomenology of Rhythmic Nuance

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7 books

Narrative Nonfiction

chrisnerd97
Chris
How Music Got Free
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump
Poisoner in Chief
The Birth of Loud
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

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162 books

Publisher Gift

fakelly
Fiona
How Music Got Free
The Scorpion Rules
A Master Plan for Rescue
Fuzzy Mud
You and Me and Him
Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness
Bug in a Vacuum

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554 books

Non Fiction

Lemons
Danielle
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
The Dark Queens
The World's Worst Assistant
The Natural Mother of the Child
America's First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics

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31 books

True Crime

Lemons
Danielle
America's First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster
Magnetized
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
A Kim Jong-Il Production
Last Call
Quiet Dell
True Believer

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17,841 books

My Library

Nitin
Nitin Rughoonauth
Fermi Remembered
Goedel's Way: Exploits into an undecidable world
Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
Debate en torno a la etica del discurso de Apel: Diálogo filosófico Norte-Sur desde América Latina
Love and math : the heart of hidden reality
The Road to Reality
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind

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8 books

Book Club

yungfortitude
Jake SquireSupporter
How Music Got Free
Reaper Man
Chain Gang All Stars
Mrs. Dalloway
The Sympathizer
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
The Sirens of Titan

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56 books

Owned

mikemali
mikie 🍾
The Art of the Album Cover
The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong
The Alchemist
Donuts
Lying
How Music Got Free
Making Music. 74 Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Producers

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46 books

Tech Lit

Cockroach
Matt
Back Up Ein Hacker Thriller
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
The Power of One: Blowing the Whistle on Facebook
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention
Blockchain Chicken Farm

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51 books

Music

susanscribs
Susan Scribner
Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
What a Fool Believes: A Memoir
My Mama, Cass: A Memoir
From Here to the Great Unknown
How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music
The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.: A Biography
Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music

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305 books

Wish List Non Fiction

Zed
Zed
The Library at Night
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
John Cale
What's Welsh for Zen: The Autobiography of John Cale
Sedition and Alchemy: A Biography of John Cale
The Story of George Loveless and the Tolpuddle Martyrs

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114 books

Economics

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Spiritomb
Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism
Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
Years That Matter Most How College Makes or Breaks Us
Honors of Inequality: How Colleges Work for Some
The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City
A Participatory Economy

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113 books

Technology

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Spiritomb
Life on the Screen
Morality by Design: Technology’s Challenge to Human Values
Never Use Futura
One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw
Fabric of Civilization
Permanent Record

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19 books

Music

spiritomb
Spiritomb
Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste
A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano
Physics of the Piano
Playing (Less) Hurt: An Injury Prevention Guide for Musicians

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26 books

Pirates

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Spiritomb
Under the Black Flag
The Pirate Queen: The Story of Grace O'Malley, Irish Pirate
Cinnamon and Gunpowder
Pirates!
Sea Queens
Pirate Queens: Dauntless Women Who Dared to Rule the High Seas

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4 books

History Of Music

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Spiritomb
Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century
Working for the clampdown: The Clash, the dawn of neoliberalism and the political promise of punk
A Fiery Gospel: The Battle Hymn of the Republic and the Road to Righteous War
How Music Got Free

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4 books

Educational

Duendachica
Mina
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
Empty Planet
Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Abusive and Controlling Men
How Music Got Free

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37 books

2019

nolotec
Nicolas
Conspiracy
Tomorrow War
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
Dying
Autonomous
Inside Apple: The Secrets Behind the Past and Future Success of Steve Jobs's Iconic Brand
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic