Björk's Homogenic (33 1/3)

✍ Scribed by Emily Mackay

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 158
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In recent years, Björk's artistry has become ever more ambitious and ever more respected. With the release of her conceptual app-album Biophilia in 2011, and a huge retrospective exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art coinciding with her most recent album, Vulnicura, in 2015, her status as artpop auteur has been secured. The album that made all this possible, though is 1997's Homogenic, a turning point in Björk's career and still among her finest musical achievements. Produced under great strain, it moves beyond the stylistic magpie rush of Debut and the urbanophile future-pop of Post, to something darker, stronger and braver, full of dramatic assertions of independence, sharp, stuttering beats, rich strings and raw outbursts of noise. It created, as the Alexander McQueen designed sleeve clearly asserted, a new Björk, one who would never stop hunting.

✦ Table of Contents

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Title
Copyright
Contents
Tracklist
Acknowledgements
Introduction: I’m going hunting
State of emergency: Björk’s crisis
I want to go on a mountain top: Björk’s escape
The marvellous web: Björk’s friends
Excuse me, but I just have to explode: Björk’s noises
You just didn’t know me: Björk’s characters
Home, what’s been found: Björk’s national anthems
I dare you to take me on: Björk’s loves
Brand new tomorrow: Björk’s images
Game we’re playing is life: Björk’s virtual realities
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Also available in the series