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Adam Scovell
Alan Garner
analogue
Andrew Kotting
archiving
Author_Jamie Sexton
Belbury Poly
Boards of Canada
Brian Eno
Broadcast
Brutalist
Burial
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chiilwave
childhood
Chris Petit
cinema
Clay Pipe Music
David Rudkin
degradation
Delia Derbyshire
digital
Electronic music
Ennio Morricone
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Erich Zann
folk horror
folklore
forthcoming
Frederic Jameson
Freud
Ghost Box
Howlround
J.G. Ballard
James Leland Kirby
Jim Jupp
Joe Meek
Julian House
Library Music
M.R. James
Marina Warner
Mark Fisher
Mark Gatiss
Mark Jenkin
Marxism
media
melancholy
memory
Merlin Coverley
Moon Wiring Club
Mordant Music
Nigel Kneale
nostalgia
occult
Owen Hatherley
paganism
Patrick Keiler
Penda's Fen
Peter Strickland
Pie Corner Audio
Public Information Films
Radiophonic Workshop
Red Shift
retro
Richard Skelton
Rob Young
rurality
sampling
Simon Reynolds
synthesiser
technology
television
Thatcherism
The Advisory Circle
The Caretaker
The Focus Group
The Stone Tape
uncanny. Derrida
vaporwave
videotape
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan
Wicker Man
Zygmunt Bauman
Product details
- ISBN 9781836392477
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 06 Jul 2026
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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).
