The Wire Primers
| Editor | Rob Young |
| Publisher | Verso |
| Copyright Holder | The Wire |
| Illustrator | Savage Pencil |
| Typeset by | MJ Gavan |
| Printed and Bound by | Bell & Bain Ltd |
| Format | Soft cover |
| Language | English |
| Copyright | 2009 |
| Pages / Font | 198 pages / Executive & Arno Pro |
| ISBN 13 | 978-1-84467-427-5 |
| ISBN | 978 1 84467 427 5 |
| Barcode (EAN) | 9781844674275 |
| Price | $19.95 |
| Price | £12.99 |
| Price | $25 CAN |
| Printer's Key | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 |
| Chapters | About the Contributors Introduction and Acknowledgements Avant Rock Captain Beefheart The Fall Noise No Wave Sonic Youth Tropicália Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention Funk, Hiphop & Beyond James Brown Grime Dubstep Fela Kuti Turntablism Jazz & Improvisation AMM Derek Bailey Ornette Coleman Fire Music Sun Ra Modern Composition John Cage Morton Feldman Musique Concrète & Early Electronic Music Karlheinz Stockhausen Iannis Xenakis |
| Notes | Subtitle: A Guide To Modern Music |
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