Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports

ISBN-13: 9780190497293 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018

John T. Lysaker

Opis

Brian Eno's seminal album Ambient 1: Music for Airports continues to fascinate and charm audiences, not only as a masterpiece of ambient music, but as a powerful and transformative work of art. Author John T. Lysaker situates this album in the context of twentieth-century art music, where its ambitions and contributions to avant garde music practice become even more apparent.

Recenzje

an introductory reading for listeners of all kinds who want to understand its importance for music history and aesthetics.

O autorze

John T. Lysaker is currently Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. He works in the philosophy of art and literature, philosophical psychology, and 19th and 20th century American and Continental Philosophy. His books include You Must Change Your Life: Philosophy, Poetry, and the Birth of Sense, After Emerson, and Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought. Current work includes a general theory of art and an extended inquiry into the nature of friendship.