deanna_etc's review against another edition

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3.0

The Doctor Who information, while not thorough, puts it in good context with RWS. The political and technical positions taken about RWS and the changes in electronic music are a little tough to get through, but I enjoyed the passages about different employees of the RWS.

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Academic overview of the great home to abstract electronic audio at the BBC, founded in 1958 and closed down in 1998 when the equipment that had been its edge was affordable to the everyday musician. What's great about the book is that in addition to musical analysis and media studies, there's a lot about how the Workshop functioned within the bureaucracy of the BBC.
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