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Portishead's Dummy (Paperback)
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Portishead's Dummy (Paperback)
Series: 33 1/3
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List price R300
Loot Price R256
Discovery Miles 2 560
You Save R44 (15%)
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This is a thoroughly researched exploration of one of the most
original, unexpected, and durable British albums of the 1990s. 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 portraits and 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 it 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. "33 1/3" is a series of
short books about a wide variety of albums, by artists ranging from
James Brown to the Beastie Boys. Launched in September 2003, the
series now contains over 60 titles and is acclaimed and loved by
fans, musicians and scholars alike. 'It was only a matter of time
before a clever publisher realized that there is an audience for
whom "Exile on Main Street" or "Electric Ladyland" are as
significant and worthy of study as "The Catcher in the Rye" or
"Middlemarch"...The series, which now comprises 29 titles with more
in the works, is freewheeling and eclectic, ranging from minute
rock-geek analysis to idiosyncratic personal celebration' - "The
New York Times Book Review", 2006. 'A brilliant series...each one a
word of real love' - "NME" (UK).
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