The Music and Art of Radiohead (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)

✍ Scribed by Joseph Tate (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 235
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Music and Art of Radiohead provides compelling close readings of the English band's music, lyrics, album cover art and music videos as well as critical commentary on interviews, reviews and the documentary film Meeting People is Easy. Established and emerging academic scholars engage with Radiohead's music and art via concerns of broader implication to contemporary cultural studies. Topics range from the band's various musical and multivalent social contexts to their contested situation within a global market economy; from asking the question, 'how free is art?' to considering the band's musical influences and radical sonic explorations. Together, the essays form a comprehensive discussion of Radiohead's entire oeuvre, from Pablo Honey to Hail to the Thief, with a special focus on the critically acclaimed best-selling albums Kid A and Amnesiac.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Dedication
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
General Editor’s Preface
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Kid Adorno
2 ‘We got Heads on Sticks / You got Ventriloquists’: Radiohead and the Improbability of Resistance
3 The Aura of Authenticity: Perceptions of Honesty, Sincerity, and Truth in ‘Creep’ and ‘Kid A’
4 Radiohead and the Negation of Gender
5 To(rt)uring the Minotaur: Radiohead, Pop, Unnatural Couplings, and Mainstream Subversion
6 ‘Ice Age Coming’: Apocalypse, the Sublime, and the Paintings of Stanley Donwood
7 Radiohead’s Antivideos: Works of Art in the Age of Electronic Reproduction
8 Deforming Rock: Radiohead’s Plunge into the Sonic Continuum
9 ‘Sounds Like Teen Spirit’: Identifying Radiohead’s Idiolect
10 Public Schoolboy Music: Debating Radiohead
11 My Radiohead Adventure
12 Hail to the Thief: A Rhizomatic Map in Fragments
Bibliography
Track Listing
Index