Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part 1Turn On . . .
  • Preface: On Ambient Audio
  • Introduction: Highs for Highbrows? How We Got from Head Music to Ambient Music
  • Part 2Tune In . . .
  • 1. Inside Environments's Psychedelic "Psychological Sound"
  • 2. Pacifica Radio's Music from the Hearts of Space and the Spacious Sound of California's New Age
  • Part 3Drift Off . . .
  • 3. Brian Eno's Ambivalent Ambiences
  • 4. Ambient EDM, or Dance Music That Isn't Dance Music!
  • Coda: Ambient Music in the 21st Century
  • Bibliography
  • Selected Discography
  • Index