Pete's On-Deck Circle:

Mark J. Butler, Unlocking the Groove: Rhythm, Meter, and Musical Design in Electronic Dance Music
Mark Katz, Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music
Daniel Goldmark, Tunes For 'Toons: Music and the Hollywood Cartoon

Pete's Recent Reads:

Richard Overy, The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia
Thomas More, Utopia: A Revised Translation, Backgrounds, & Criticism
Richard A. Stewart, Sunrise at Abadan: The British and Soviet Invasion of Iran, 1941
Charles W. Sydnor, Soldiers of Destruction: The SS Death's Head Division, 1933-1945
Robert Fink, Repeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice
Jim Lehrer, The Franklin Affair
Catherine Merridale, Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945
Wolfgang Samuel, The War of Our Childhood: Memories of World War II
Rémy, The Silent Company
Elisabeth Le Guin, Boccherini's Body: An Essay in Carnal Musicology
Georg Grossjohann, Five Years, Four Fronts: A German Soldier's Combat Memoir
Harrison E. Salisbury, The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad
Olaf Reed Olsen, Two Eggs On My Plate
David L. Robbins, Last Citadel: A Novel of the Battle of Kursk
Desmond Flower & James Reeves, The War 1939-1945: A Documentary History
Gerald Weinberg, A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies
Neil Stephenson, Quicksilver: Vol. 1 of the Baroque Cycle
Merrill Peterson, The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun
John Ferling, A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic
Maynard Solomon, Beethoven
9/11 Commission Report
David Carle, Water and the California Dream
Mary Gentle, Carthage Ascendant: The Book of Ash, Vol. 2
Kevin Starr, Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950
Stephanie S. Pincetl, Transforming Calfornia: A Political History of Land Use and Development
Blake Gumprecht, The Los Angeles River
Kevin Starr, Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression In California

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