Brian Eno: Oblique Music

ISBN-13: 9781441129123 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 296 str.

Sean Albiez; David Pattie

Opis

On the back of his published diary Brian Eno describes himself variously as: a mammal, a father, an artist, a celebrity, a pragmatist, a computer-user, an interviewee, and a 'drifting clarifier'. To this list we might add rock star (on the first two Roxy Music albums); the creator of lastingly influential music (Another Green World; Music for Airports); a trusted producer (for Talking Heads, U2, Coldplay and a host of other artists); the maker of large-scale video and installation artworks; a maker of apps and interactive software; and so on. He is one of the most feted and influential musical figures of the past forty years, even though he has described himself on more than one occasion as a non-musician. This volume examines Eno's work as a musician, as a theoretician, as a collaborator, and as a producer. Brian Eno is one of the most influential figures in popular music; an updated examination of his work on this scale is long overdue.

Recenzje

Specialists in English, media, film and television have also been invited to take part in this conversation, which feels authentic to the spirit of Eno ... The book mulls over those necessary questions that anyone thinking about Eno must eventually face. The Wire 20160818

Spis treści

Introduction: Brian Eno: A problem of organization - David Pattie and Sean AlbiezPART ONE - Eno: Composer, musician and theorist1 The Bogus Men: Eno, Ferry and Roxy Music - David Pattie2 Brian Eno, non- musicianship and the experimental tradition - Cecilia Sun3 Taking the studio by strategy- David Pattie4 Between the avant- garde and the popular: The discursive economy of Brian Eno's musical practices - Chris Atton5 Yes, but is it music? Brian Eno and the definition of ambient music - Mark Edward Achtermann6 The Lovely Bones: Music from beyond - Hillegonda C. Rietveld7 The voice and/of Brian Eno - Sean AlbiezPART TWO - The University of Eno: Production and collaborations8 Before and after Eno: Situating 'The Recording Studio as Compositional Tool' - Sean Albiez and Ruth Dockwray9 Control and surrender: Eno remixed - collaboration and Oblique Strategies - Kingsley Marshall and Rupert Loydell10 Avant-gardism, 'Africa' and appropriation in My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - Elizabeth Ann Lindau11 Eno and Devo - Jonathan Stewart12 Another Green World? Eno, Ireland and U2 - Noel McLaughlin13 Documenting no wave: Brian Eno as urban ethnographer - Martin JamesSelect Discography

O autorze

Sean Albiez is an Independent Scholar and musician. He has published on electronic music, music technology, punk and post-punk. He is currently researching topics in electronic music history and has thirty years experience lecturing in popular music at UK universities and colleges. He is co-editor of Kraftwerk: Music Non Stop (Bloomsbury, 2011), Brian Eno: Oblique Music (Bloomsbury, 2016), and The Velvet Underground (Bloomsbury, 2022), and Contributing Editor (Music Technology) for the Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Popular Music of the World. He produces electronic music as ghost elektron and - with Martin James - as Nostalgia Deathstar. David Pattie is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham, UK. He researches and publishes in a number of areas; popular music performance and culture, contemporary British and Scottish theatre, and the work of Samuel Beckett. He is the author of Rock Music in Performance (Bloomsbury, 2007), and the co-editor of the books Kraftwerk: Music Non Stop (Bloomsbury, 2011) and Brian Eno: Oblique Music (Bloomsbury, 2016), and The Velvet Underground (Bloomsbury, 2022).