Bridge to an Unseen Shore

"This superb work of cultural history is the first comprehensive account of New Age music, art, and culture in its golden age. Sympathetic yet nuanced, Jacob Smith's illuminating book masterfully blends accessible historical journalism and scholarly mapmaking into a definitive study that will be well received among scholars and New Age lovers alike."--Erik Davis, author of High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies

"A disarmingly definitive defense of an oft-maligned music, distinguished above all by the author's labor in making New Age music visible as a movement and field. Traveling to unexpected spaces of creation and listening, interviewing numerous key figures, and disclosing an enormous discography, Smith enthusiastically reintroduces us to the New Age in this deeply researched yet strikingly intimate book."--Jeremy Braddock, author of Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums