Laurie Anderson's Big Science (Hardcover)

Shimmering in maximal minimalism, joyful bleakness, and bodiless intimacy, Laurie Anderson's Big Science diagnosed crises of meaning, scale, and identity in 1982. Decades later, the strange questions it poses loom even larger: How do we remain human when our identities are digitally distributed? Does technology bring us closer together or further apart? Can we experience the stillness of "now" when time is always moving? How does our experience become memory? Laurie Anderson pioneered new techniques and aesthetics in performance art, becoming its first and most enduring superstar. In this book, author S. Alexander Reed dives into the wonderfully strange making and meanings of this singular album and of its creator's long artistic career. Packed with scrupulous new research, reception history, careful description, and dizzying creativity, this book is an interdisciplinary love letter to a record whose sounds, politics, and expressions of gendered identity grow more relevant each day.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Oxford Keynotes
Release date:	March 2022
Authors:	S. Alexander Reed (Associate Professor of Music and Integrative Studies)
Dimensions:	214 x 140 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	184
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-092601-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Easy listening, MOR Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Techniques of music > General Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Easy listening, MOR Books > Music > Techniques of music > General
LSN:	0-19-092601-5
Barcode:	9780190926014

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