A review by colophonphile
Special Sound: The Creation and Legacy of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop by Louis Niebur

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.