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Sounds of Lost Futures

Jamie Sexton
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      Musical hauntology conjures sounds of futures that never arrived: music that reflects on memory and the recent past, drawing on analogue instrumentation, sampling and digital processing to capture how time feels twisted in an age of endless reproduction. The Sounds of Lost Futures offers the first sustained overview of this influential British mode, tracing its emergence, cognate genres and wide constellation of media influences. It also unpacks the conceptual forces that shape it – from nostalgia and retro culture to fractured temporal experience – while covering key artists and labels such as Ghost Box, The Caretaker and Mordant Music. With a dedicated focus on audiovisual hauntology, this book provides new clarity on a musical form attuned to the strange echoes of modern life.

      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Jamie Sexton EAN: 9781836392477 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: 200 WEIGHT: HEIGHT: 216 mm
      PUBLISHED BY: Reaktion Books DATE PUBLISHED: 2026-07-01 CITY: GENRE: MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Electronic, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture WIDTH: 138 mm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Electronic music, Electronic musical instruments, Popular culture

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      Jamie Sexton is Associate Professor in Film and Television Studies at Northumbria University. His publications include Freak Scenes: American Indie Cinema and Indie Music Cultures (2022) and Anonymous Sounds: Library Music and Screen Cultures in the 1960s and 1970s (2025).

      Musical hauntology conjures sounds of futures that never arrived: music that reflects on memory and the recent past, drawing on analogue instrumentation, sampling and digital processing to capture how time feels twisted in an age of endless reproduction. The Sounds of Lost Futures offers the first sustained overview of this influential British mode, tracing its emergence, cognate genres and wide constellation of media influences. It also unpacks the conceptual forces that shape it – from nostalgia and retro culture to fractured temporal experience – while covering key artists and labels such as Ghost Box, The Caretaker and Mordant Music. With a dedicated focus on audiovisual hauntology, this book provides new clarity on a musical form attuned to the strange echoes of modern life.

      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Jamie Sexton EAN: 9781836392477 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: 200 WEIGHT: HEIGHT: 216 mm
      PUBLISHED BY: Reaktion Books DATE PUBLISHED: 2026-07-01 CITY: GENRE: MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Electronic, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture WIDTH: 138 mm SPINE:

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      Electronic music, Electronic musical instruments, Popular culture

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      Jamie Sexton is Associate Professor in Film and Television Studies at Northumbria University. His publications include Freak Scenes: American Indie Cinema and Indie Music Cultures (2022) and Anonymous Sounds: Library Music and Screen Cultures in the 1960s and 1970s (2025).

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