How long does it take to read The Song Machine?
The Song Machine by John Seabrook, Dion Graham takes about 7 hours 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 33 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2015. 412 pages, about 113,300 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 35 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 33 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 43 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
There's a reason hit songs offer such guilty pleasure--they're designed that way. Over the last two decades a new type of hit song has emerged, one that is almost inescapably catchy. Pop songs have always had a "hook," but today's songs bristle with them: a hook every seven seconds is the rule. The song machine explores what the new hits may be doing to our brains and listening habits, especially as music services use streaming data to gather music into new genres invented by algorithms based on listener behavior. Revelatory and original, this book will change the way you listen to music.
Subjects: Popular music, Music trade, Production and direction, History and criticism, Sound recording industry, History
