Brian Eno: Oblique Music

by Sean Albiez (Editor), David Pattie (Editor)

Overview

Examines Eno's work as a musician, theoretician, and collaborator.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441117458
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/11/2016
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Sean Albiez is Senior Lecturer in Popular Music at Southampton Solent University, UK

David Pattie is Professor in Drama in the Department of Performing Arts at the University of Chester, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Brian Eno: A problem of organization - David Pattie and Sean Albiez

PART ONE - Eno: Composer, musician and theorist

1 The Bogus Men: Eno, Ferry and Roxy Music - David Pattie
2 Brian Eno, non- musicianship and the experimental tradition - Cecilia Sun
3 Taking the studio by strategy- David Pattie
4 Between the avant- garde and the popular: The discursive economy of Brian Eno's musical practices - Chris Atton
5 Yes, but is it music? Brian Eno and the definition of ambient music - Mark Edward Achtermann
6 The Lovely Bones: Music from beyond - Hillegonda C. Rietveld
7 The voice and/of Brian Eno - Sean Albiez

PART TWO - The University of Eno: Production and collaborations

8 Before and after Eno: Situating 'The Recording Studio as Compositional Tool' - Sean Albiez and Ruth Dockwray
9 Control and surrender: Eno remixed – collaboration and Oblique Strategies - Kingsley Marshall and Rupert Loydell
10 Avant-gardism, 'Africa' and appropriation in My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - Elizabeth Ann Lindau
11 Eno and Devo - Jonathan Stewart
12 Another Green World? Eno, Ireland and U2 - Noel McLaughlin
13 Documenting no wave: Brian Eno as urban ethnographer - Martin James

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Editorial Reviews

Contributions include meticulous descriptions of compositions; a chapter about Eno's ambient oeuvre (which quirkily compares him to Tolkien at great length) ... Albiez contributes to the best piece on precursors to Eno's use of the studio to create new sounds. ... Intellectually stimulating.
Record Collector

Specialists in English, media, film and television have also been invited to take part in this conversation, which feels authentic to the spirit of Eno ... The book mulls over those necessary questions that anyone thinking about Eno must eventually face.
The Wire

The collection's standouts are Martin James' pithy, pacy account of Eno's years in New York (1978-84) ... and Hillegonda Rietveld's coolly attentive reading of the soundtrack to the film The Lovely Bones, in which his "oblique music seems like a ghostly call from the 'in-between'".
Times Higher Education

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