Portishead's Dummy

Author: R.J. Wheaton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1441155821
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 249

Book Description
An album which distilled a genre from the musical, cultural, and social ether, Portishead's Dummy was such a complete artistic achievement that its ubiquitous successes threatened to exhaust its own potential. RJ Wheaton offers an impressionistic investigation of Dummy that imitates the cumulative structure of the album itself, piecing together interviews, impressions of time and place, cultural criticism, and a thorough exploration of the music itself. The approach focuses as much on the reception and response that Dummy engendered as it does on the original production of the album. How is that so many people have, collectively, made a quintessential headphone album into a nightclub album? How have they made the product of a niche local scene into an international success? This is the story of how an innovative, experimental album became the iconic sound for the better part of a decade; and an aesthetic template for the experience of music in the digital age.

Portishead's Dummy

Author: RJ Wheaton
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441194495
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 249

Book Description

Dummy

Author: R. J. Wheaton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781501397219
Category : Trip hop (Music)
Languages : en
Pages : 235

Book Description
"An album which distilled a genre from the musical, cultural, and social ether, Portishead's Dummy was such a complete artistic achievement that its ubiquitous successes threatened to exhaust its own potential. RJ Wheaton offers an impressionistic investigation of Dummy that imitates the cumulative structure of the album itself, piecing together interviews, impressions of time and place, cultural criticism, and a thorough exploration of the music itself. The approach focuses as much on the reception and response that Dummy engendered as it does on the original production of the album. How is that so many people have, collectively, made a quintessential headphone album into a nightclub album? How have they made the product of a niche local scene into an international success? This is the story of how an innovative, experimental album became the iconic sound for the better part of a decade; and an aesthetic template for the experience of music in the digital age."--Publisher's description.

Banging the Monkey

Author: Tod A
Publisher: Flagrante Delicto Press
ISBN: 9781543967722
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Writer Mark O'Kane is in a downward spiral. His last novel tanked. His wife left him. And his drinking is out of control. So when a chance meeting with enigmatic businessman Frank Fochs leads to a cushy job on the tropical island of Madu, it sounds like Mark's salvation: he can finally write his comeback novel and set his life on a brighter path.But when Frank disappears, Mark is left holding the bag for his boss's shady business dealings. And after a corpse washes up in the local lagoon, Mark may even be charged with Frank's murder. As he skirts the border between regret and desire, Mark discovers that the demons of his past are not so easily outrun, and that paradise comes with a price."Banging the Monkey is for anyone who has ever dreamed of chucking it all and starting over. Debut author Tod A injects pulp noir with a punk prose rhythm to weave a darkly comic tale about life at the end of the American Century."

Glossalalia

Author: Julian Wolfreys
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415969147
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 418

Book Description
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

SPIN

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124

Book Description
From the concert stage to the dressing room, from the recording studio to the digital realm, SPIN surveys the modern musical landscape and the culture around it with authoritative reporting, provocative interviews, and a discerning critical ear. With dynamic photography, bold graphic design, and informed irreverence, the pages of SPIN pulsate with the energy of today's most innovative sounds. Whether covering what's new or what's next, SPIN is your monthly VIP pass to all that rocks.

Revolution Rock

Author: Amy Britton
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467887110
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 409

Book Description
The ages of Thatcherism and New Labour are two of the most significant of the twentieth century, and more alike than they would care to admit. Out of these years of political turmoil have come many brilliant, often politically dissenting, British albums which have captured the landscape of the time. This is the story of those albums.

The Rough Guide to Rock

Author: Peter Buckley
Publisher: Rough Guides
ISBN: 1858284570
Category : Dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1234

Book Description
Compiles career biographies of over 1,200 artists and rock music reviews written by fans covering every phase of rock from R & B through punk and rap.

SPIN

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166

DJ Shadow's Endtroducing

Author: Eliot Wilder
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1441197443
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 111

Book Description
What resonated about Endtroducing when it was released in 1996, and what makes it still resonate today, is the way in which it loosens itself from the mooring of the known and sails off into an uncharted territory that seems to exist both in and out of time. Josh Davis is not only a master sampler and turntablist supreme, he is also a serious archeologist with a world-thirsty passion (what Cut Chemist refers to as Josh's "spidey sense") for seeking out, uncovering and then ripping apart the discarded graces of some other generation - that "pile of broken dreams" - and weaving them back together into a tapestry of chronic bleakness and beauty. Over the course of several long conversations with Josh Davis (DJ Shadow), we learn about his early years in California, the friends and mentors who helped him along the way, his relationship with Mo'Wax and James Lavelle, and the genesis and creation of his widely acknowledged masterpiece, Endtroducing.