Read specifically for the chapter entitled Technostalgia.
A heady but worthwhile way of pulling together anthropological research into music and sound.

There are definitely interesting parts here and there.

But for me, the ideas that the author tries to formulate and elaborate are far from well-defined. It seems that at each chapter, the reader has to go through a good deal of bla-bla and sociological name-dropping before getting some sort of thesis.

I would not know which other book to recommend but there are definitely a lot of others, music-related, that I would recommmend before this one. Ok let’s drop one:
Dialectique de la pop, de Agnès Gayraud