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Siouxsie and the Banshees' Peepshow (Paperback)
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Siouxsie and the Banshees' Peepshow (Paperback)
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In 1978, Siouxsie and the Banshees declared 'We don't see ourselves
in the same context as other rock'n'roll bands.' A decade later,
and in the stark aftermath of a devastating storm, the band
retreated to a 17th-century mansion house in the deracinated Sussex
countryside to write their ninth studio album, Peepshow. Here, the
band absorbed the bygone, rural atmosphere and its inspirational
mise en scene, thus framing the record cinematically, as Siouxsie
Sioux recalled, 'It was as if we were doing the whole thing on the
set of The Wicker Man'. Samantha Bennett looks at how Siouxsie and
the Banshees' Peepshow is better understood in the context of film
and film music (as opposed to popular music studies or, indeed, the
works of other rock'n'roll bands). Drawing upon more than one
hundred films and film scores, this book focuses on Peepshow's
deeply embedded historical and aesthetic (para)cinematic
influences: How is each track a reflection of genre film? Who are
the various featured protagonists? And how does Peepshow's diverse
orchestration, complex musical forms, atypical narratives and
evocative soundscapes reveal an inherently cinematic record?
Ultimately, Peepshow can be read as a soundtrack to all the films
Siouxsie and the Banshees ever saw. Or perhaps it was the
soundtrack to the greatest film they never made.
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