Radiohead

Music for a Global Future

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Since Radiohead’s formation in the mid-1980s, the band has celebrated three decades of creative collaboration and achieved critical acclaim across music genres as cultural icons. Recognized not only for their musical talent and daring experimentation, Radiohead is also known for its work’s engagement with cultural and political issues. Phil Rose dissects Radiohead’s entire catalog to reveal how the music directs our attention toward themes like cyber technology, the environment, terrorism, and the inevitability of the apocalypse. With each new album, Radiohead has sought to reinvent its sound and position in the music industry. Abandoning traditional distribution for their 2007 In Rainbows album, Radiohead experimented with a pay-what-you-want model that embraced the crowd-sourced commerce that has continued to gain prominence in modern consumer culture. In addition to chronicling the band members’ various solo projects, Rose outlines Radiohead’s political and civic activism. As the most up-to-date and thorough discussion of this landmark body of musical multimedia, Radiohead: Music for a Global Future recounts the band’s triumphs and tragedies along with their role at the forefront of adaptation both to a changing music industry and a rapidly changing world.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-04-22
Mått157 x 239 x 23 mm
Vikt590 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieTempo: A Rowman & Littlefield Music Series on Rock, Pop, and Culture
Antal sidor304
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781442279292

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Phil Rose has taught at a number of Canadian universities and is the president and chair of the Silvan Tomkins Institute. He has published in many academic journals on a variety of topics, and among his books are Roger Waters and Pink Floyd: The Concept Albums (2015), Radiohead and the Global Movement for Change: Pragmatism Not Idealism (2016), and Confronting Technopoly: Charting a Course Towards Human Survival (2017).

Chapter 1 - Becoming Radiohead (1985-1993)Chapter 2 - Towards Technological Apocalypse (1994-1995)Chapter 3 - A Sergeant Pepper for the 'Net' Generation (1996-1998)Chapter 4 - OK Computer (1996-1998)Chapter 5 - Media Fallout (1998-1999)Chapter 6 - Kosovo and the First Human Clone (2000-2001)Chapter 7 - Creeping Totalitarianism (2002-2003)Chapter 8 - Goodbye EMI, Hello Pay What You Want (2004-2008)Chapter 9 - Post-Apocalypse? (2009-2012)Chapter 10 - Forging Forward (2013-2016)Chapter 11 - Looking Backwards (2017-2018)

When English rock band Radiohead returned to the studio in 1996 for their third album, lead singer and dominant songwriter Thom Yorke was writing music to deal with his claustrophobic feelings from endless touring. The result was OK Computer, which perfectly summed up pre-millennium jitters in 12 prescient songs about technology and alienation. Over the next two decades, Radiohead continued to use their music and platform as public figures to comment on political, social justice, and environmental issues. Rose (Radiohead and the Global Movement for Change; Roger Waters and Pink Floyd) presents a comprehensive analysis of the band’s message by dissecting the individual songs and artwork from all of their albums to date, revealing a group of musicians who both feared their global influence and embraced it. VERDICT Radiohead fans and those interested in media studies will find revelations in Rose’s engrossing insights.