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Article: The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music.(Book review)
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The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music. Edited by Nick Collins and Julio d'Escrivan. (Cambridge Companion in Music.) New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. [xxi, 287 p. ISBN-13: 9780521688659. $95.] Illustrations, music examples, bibliographic references, index.
Although Nick Collins and Julio d'Escrivan declare in the opening sentence of their introduction that "electronic music is the mainstream" (p. 1), the institutional support for electronic music is now under tighter examination than at any point in the past. At a time when one of the world's leading centers for electronic music, the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM), is coming under ...